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our era. The reason wliy these 100 years, and a few 

 more in another place, were introduced, is that the 

 correctors of this Hst confounded the final overthrow 

 of tlie Hindu empire, in the year 1 192, by Sahebud- 

 DEEN, with the mortal wounds given to it by 

 Sebecteghin, and his son Mahmud, in the begin- 

 ning of the eleventh century. In all the copies 

 which I have seen, of Ragiiu na'Th's' list, an obvious 

 notice is taken of the famous emperor Bhoja : yet 

 the learned insist that he is concealed there, under 

 the epithets of Deva-Dha'ra'-sinha, as he is called 

 in some lists, and ^Saila-Dha'ra-sinha in others : 

 but in many copies these names are written errone- 

 ously Damo-Djiara-s'ena, and Jala-dhara-sena, 

 In the Bhoja-prabandha the epithet De'va is always 

 prefixed to his name, thus De'va-Bhoja ; and in the 

 room of these various surnames, we hnd in some 

 copies Diva'yana-siniia, As Bhoja was king of 

 Dhard (now Dlidr) he might certainly be denomi- 

 nated DriA'RA'-siNHA. This famous city is called also 

 "S^iila-dhdrd, and Bhoja is called 'Sa'ila'ditya, or 

 VicRAMAuiTYA, wlio residcd at ^Sdila-dhdrd, in the 

 Satrujaya-mahatmya ; and in the same manner, 'Sa'li- 

 va'hana is denominated Pattax-sinha or 'Sena, 

 from the town of Prat'isthdna (or Pattan) where he 

 is said to have resided. If so, the new modellers of 

 these lists have introduced many obscure, or rather 

 fictitious names, in order to fill up the space, between 

 that emperor and the downfal of the empire in ] 192, 

 by Sahebuddeen, which they have confounded 

 with the catastrophe under Mahmud-ben-Sebec- 

 TEGHTN. In various lists, which I have seen, Se- 

 becteghin's name is written Seeectekin, Sanec- 



TEKIN, NeCTEKIN, kc. 



As Bhoja is not noticed by any foreign writer, it 

 is impossible to ascertain the time in which he lived, 

 from the vague and contradictory data to be found in 



