dwatriMshat-puttalikA-siMhAsanaM, a version of vikrama-charita going back to the eleventh century, the time of bhojarAja paramAr, has at least three stories where vikramAditya is tested by Gods to be ready to commit heroic suicide.
The twenty-fifth statue of the throne relates to bhoja a story, of how once upon a time there was a great famine in the kingdom of vikramAditya. When all other efforts to bring rains failed, then a certain learned mAntrika-s proposed to the king a prayoga where a nara-bali of a man endowed with 32 best attributes were called for. (South Indian recension has the devatA of this prayoga as 'AshApUrA-shakti', where as North Indian version mentions this offering to navagraha-s.) Since those 32 attributes were all present in the King himself, he readily offered his own head for the bali for the betterment of his people. Seated on the altar in front of the devI, as he placed the sword to his thorat and was readying to chop off his neck, the Goddess thus pleased stopped him from the suicide, and not only the rains happened but also gave him many divine blessings.
In another story 16th, (to save a king of his confederacy from the ordeal), he would offer his own body for a certain prayoga to be done by 64 yoginI-s, at the end of which the yoginI-s would resurrect him.
In 7th (or 8th in another rec., missing in North recension), vikramAditya would offer his own head for narabali to a certain deity for saving the life of a citizen of his.
The twenty-fifth statue of the throne relates to bhoja a story, of how once upon a time there was a great famine in the kingdom of vikramAditya. When all other efforts to bring rains failed, then a certain learned mAntrika-s proposed to the king a prayoga where a nara-bali of a man endowed with 32 best attributes were called for. (South Indian recension has the devatA of this prayoga as 'AshApUrA-shakti', where as North Indian version mentions this offering to navagraha-s.) Since those 32 attributes were all present in the King himself, he readily offered his own head for the bali for the betterment of his people. Seated on the altar in front of the devI, as he placed the sword to his thorat and was readying to chop off his neck, the Goddess thus pleased stopped him from the suicide, and not only the rains happened but also gave him many divine blessings.
In another story 16th, (to save a king of his confederacy from the ordeal), he would offer his own body for a certain prayoga to be done by 64 yoginI-s, at the end of which the yoginI-s would resurrect him.
In 7th (or 8th in another rec., missing in North recension), vikramAditya would offer his own head for narabali to a certain deity for saving the life of a citizen of his.