Virasena Saba was the chief minister of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II.
[1] Virasena Saba was the foreign affairs, peace and war minister of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II, and held the office by hereditary right.
[1] U.N. Roy conjectures the possibility of the composition of the Prasasti inscribed on the Meharauli Iron Pillar Inscription by Śāba alias Virasena who was an accomplished poet.
It is possible that he outlived his patron and when during a Dharmayatra he revisited the spot where the lofty banner had been raised as a mark of homage to Lord Vishnu after the victory over the Vahlikas, was moved to compose and inscribe this Prasasti on the Mehrauli Pillar.
[5][1] Udayagiri Cave Inscription of Chandragupta II (A.D. 375-414) mentions Virasena, the child of Kotsa, the minister for peace and war under Chandragupta II, who knew the meanings of the words, and logic, and (the ways of) mankind, who was a poet and who belonged to (the city of) Pataliputra[6]