Major Tod, on an Inscription at Madhucarghar. 229 



Pleased with the child's beauty, he took him to his wife, Retnavali ; who 

 was no less surprised ; and with his sanction, she gave out that a child was 

 born of a concealed pregnancy ; and, her bosom becoming by force of 

 sentiment filled with milk, she suckled the infant : and he passed for the 

 king's own son. Bh. Ch. 1. 14-22. 



(H.) Saccharum Munja; a sort of grass, from the fibres of which, cordage 

 is made : and especially the Brahmenical string, or triple thread worn by 

 Brdhmens. 



The Bhdja-charitra assigns the same reason : viz. that the child was found 

 in a clump of Munja grass. Bh. Ch. 1 . 24-. 



He was not regularly adopted, but taken as a supposititious child. lb. 



{!•) When the king had left the apartment, Munja bethought himself that 

 " a secret is not safe, which has been heard by six ears :" and dragging the 

 woman from under the bed, cut off her head with his scimitar. The king, 

 hearing the noise, returned ; and seeing what had passed, reflected, that 

 " he, who wants sensibility, will guard the prosperity of a realm ; and not 

 else." Bh. Ch. 1.44-46. 



(K.) Gocshura. Caltrops. Tribulus lanuginosus. In India, as in ancient 

 Europe, the implement of war, and the plant from which the idea of it was 

 taken, bear the same name. 



(L-) Add his sons : Lacshmi varma (Samvat 1200), and Jaya varma. 



(M.) Munja appears to have been reigning in Samvat 1050 : being named 

 by the author of a poem, bearing that date. (See Preface to the Dictionary 

 of Amera, p. 3 ) 



(N.) The Rhqja-charitra is a poem comprising nearly sixteen hundred 

 stanzas (exactly 1592), distributed in five cantos (jtrastdva). Bhoja's trans- 

 formation concludes the third canto : his restoration to his human body is 

 told in the fourth. 



(O.) Barbarian : speaking none but a barbaric dialect. Am. Cosh. 2. 10. 

 21. In the sequel the same individual is called a Bhilla. Bh. Ch. 599 

 and 607. 



(P.) Written Vach^ha-rdja, in the Society's copy of the Bhdja-charitra. 

 I'robably the name should be Vatsa-rdja. 



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