94 Bhoja Rija of Dhar and his Homonyms. [No. 2, 
Passing them over we came to the first Bhoja whose era may be 
ascertained with some certainty. Col. Tod, following a Jain manu- 
seript,* says that he flourished about the end of the sixth century, 
S. 6381 = A. C. 575. He was a sovereign of the Pramara race and 
had Malava for his dominion. Abbe Bertrand,t following Mir Ali 
Afsos, makes a Bhoja ascend the throne of Malava 542 years after 
Vikramaditya, whieh would give us a Bhoja a century before this 
sovereign; and Teiffenthaler gives another 426} years after Vikrama, 
both of whom are probably the same with the first prince of Tod, 
misplaced by blundering chroniclers. Prinsep,§ following the Ayin 
Akbary, places Bhoja the successor of Munja at the end of the 5th 
century (485) whom he identified with the first Bhoja of Tod. 
The next Bhoja of the Colonel’s hst lived in Samvat 721 = A. C, 
665. According to the Aitpur inscription,|| a Bhoja was the son of 
Gohaditya and the seventh ancestor in a direct line from a sovereign 
of the name of Kala Bhoja “a hero resplendent as the sun,” whe 
was followed after eight successive generations by a Sakti Kumara 
who flourished in the Samvat year 1084 (16th of Bysakha) = A. C. 
978. Col. Tod assumes the first of these two to be identical with 
his second Bhoja. Now ascending from Sakti Kumara if we allow 
eighteen years to each reign,§] Kala Bhoja would be placed in the 
middle of the 9th century (A. C. 834) and Bhoja in the early part 
of the 8th century (A. C. 708) instead of the middle of the seventh 
agreeably to the Jain date, This discrepancy, however, may be re- 
conciled if we allow the first Bhoja a reign of a little more than forty- 
three years from A. C. 665 to 708, or a little longer than an ordinary 
reign to one of his successors. It is probably this prince who 
is described as the elder or VrippHa Buosa at whose instance 
Bana the poet propitiated the sun by a poem of great merit, the 
Suryas' ataka, and rid himself of leprosy ; and it is possibly to him 
we owe the treatise on rhetoric entitled Saraswati-kanthdbharana 
* Tod’s Rajasthan, Vol. I. p. 800. 
+ Journal Asiatique, Mai 1844, p. 354. 
{ Description Historique et Geographique de l’Inde, Vol. I. p. 1. 
§ Thomas’s Prinsep, Vol. II. p. 250. 
|| Tod’s History of Rajasthan, Vol. I. p. 802. 
*| The genealogy of the fifteen princes of this line runs as follows: 1, Goha- 
ditya; 2, Bhoja ; 3, Mahendra; 4, Naga; 5, Syeela, (Sailya?) 6, Aparajita ; 7, 
Mahendra ; 8, Kala Bhoja; 9, Khoman; 10, Bhirtripada ; 11, Singji; 12, Sri 
Ullut (whose daughter’s son) 13, Nirvahana; 14, Salivahana; 15, Sakti Ku- 
mara, 
