1863. | Bhoja Rajé of Dhar and his Homonyms. 95 
and one or two other works which pass in the name of a Bhoja 
Raja.* He was the contemporary of Manatungas/uri and of Maura 
the poet. If he be admitted to have been the patron of Bana, it 
would require little proof to shew that he was a great patron of 
learned men and was surrounded by a number of poets and literati, 
and that without pledging our faith to the apocryphal five hundred 
scholars of his court. Our information, however, regarding Vriddha 
Bhoja is yet so meagre and unsatisfactory that it would be unwar- 
rantable to assume, farther than as a mere conjecture, his identity 
with the second Bhoja of Col. Tod. The expression Vriddha (old) 
would suit the first Bhoja best, but the date of Bana would not 
justify the assignment. The Bhojaand Kéla Bhoja of the Aitpura 
record have their counterparts in an inscription from Mount Abu 
noticed by Professor Wilson, but instead of being nine generations 
removed from each other, there they appear as father and son. Judg- 
‘ing from this circumstance and the fact of the names of their 
ancestors for two generations and of their successors for twenty 
generations being different throughout, we have no hesitation in 
taking them to be quite distinct. They were Jains and belonged 
to the solar race of Mewar. The last of the roll lived in A. C. 1286, 
which with the usual allowance of eighteen years to each reign would 
place Bhoja in the beginning of the tenth century (A. C. 908). 
Kshiraswamin of Kashmir (A. C. 772) cites a Bhoja as the au- 
thor of a vocabulary and a grammar ;{ but the editor of the Vasa- 
vadatta “does not feel it necessary to believe that in every instance 
Bhoja is the name of a king,” and I am disposed to side with him. 
The third Bhoja of Col. Tod’s list is the hero of the Bhoja-prae 
bandha and sovereign of Dhara. Before I notice him it is necessary, 
for the sake of chronological order, to record the names of two 
sovereigns of Kanouj and one of Pehewa. ‘The first two occur in a 
copper plate inscription§ found by the late Col. Stacy, a counterpart 
* Colebrooke’s Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. I. p. 22. 
+ Asiatic Researches, XVI. p. 291 et seq. The names are—1 Bappaka, 2 Gohila, 
3 Bhoja, 4 Kala Bhoja, 5 Bhartribhatta, 6 Samahayika, 7 Khummana, 8 Allata, 9 
Naravahana, 10 Sakti——? 11 Suchivarma, 12 Naravarma, 13 Kirtivarma, 14 
Vairi Sifha, 15 Vijaya Sifha, 16 Ari Sifha, 17 Vikrama Sifiha, 18 Samat Sifha, 
19 Kumara Sifha, 20 Mathana Sifiha, 21 Padma Sifha, 22 Jaita Sifiha, 23 Teja 
Sinha, 24 Samara Sifha. : 
{ Colebrooke’s Miscellaneous Hssay, Vol. II. p. 290. 
§ Vide my translation of this record, ante, Vol. XVII. p. 71. 
