VICRAMADITYA AND SALIVAHANA. 177 



corrected and improved, by Ra'ja-Bhoja; and this 

 nevvr edition is called Bhqja-pratidcs'a-vyavasthay and 

 still exists in Gujjar/it. 



When Bhoja ascended the throne, he found the 

 famous Sinhasana, or lion-seat, which had been 

 buried since the days of Vicrama'ditya, and thereby 

 became entitled to that epithet, which was con- 

 firmed to him by Bali, when he visited the infernal 

 regions. He is also called 'Sri-Carn'a-ra'ja-Vi- 

 CRAMA, with the title of Aditya, which last is 

 used often separately, and was also a title bestowed 

 upon 'Sri-Carna-De'va, whom he alluded to in the 

 stanzas he sent to Munja *, and which afterward, 

 from that circumstance, was bestowed on him. 

 When he died, the goddess Sarasvati, presiding 

 over the sciences, wept bitterly, saying " where shall 

 I find now a place to dwell in." Bhoja ascended 

 the throne, as we have seen before, in the year of 

 Christ 913; and he resided tsX Dhara-nagai\ com- 

 monly called Dhar, in the province of Mcilava, 

 He had an only daughter, called Banumati, whom 

 he gave in marriage to Jaya-nanda, who conquered 

 all India, and is reckoned as the last of the worthies 

 dignified with the title of Vicrama'ditya, though 

 some reckon Jaya-chandra as the last; and indeed 

 Jaya-nanda and Jaya-Chandra are often mis- 

 taken the one for the other. 



In the appendix to the Agni-puran'a, the author 

 concludes with declaring that some hundred years 

 ago, '' the gods and men in India, groaning under 

 the tyranny of foreign tribes, went in a body, with 

 Brahma at their head, to 'Sweta-dxvlpa, or the 

 White Island in the west, to implore Vishnu's pro- 

 tection, in their own name, and also in the behalf 



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