96 Bhoja Réja of Dhar and his Homonyms. [No. 2, 
of which has lately been found by Mr. Cosserat at Sarun.* Col. Stacy’s 
inscription bears date the 65 (?) of Vaishakha of a local era and 
records the grant of a village named Tikkarika which was situated on 
the left bank of the Ganges opposite Benares. The donor’s name is 
Vinayakapala. His ancestors, who begin their genealogical tree with a 
Devas‘akti, include a Bhoja son of Ramabhadra, and another son (?) 
of Mahendra Pala. In a paper entitled “ Vestiges of three Royal 
Lines of Kanyakubja or Kanouj,”’+ allusion has been made to a huge 
inscription at Gwalior which has the name of a Mahendra Pala with 
the date 960 close by it, then a Bhoja, and then again a Mahendra 
Pala with the date 964 after it; but as the transcript from which 
this information has been gleaned is described to be “full of breaks, 
the very perfection of all that is unintelligible, and the result of 
laborious infidelity in which the copyist had-in patches by the dozen 
altered as many as eight or ten consecutive letters,’ I do not feel 
that it would. at all subserve the purposes of history to attach any 
importance to these dates, until an authentic transcript of the record 
is available for reference. Colonel Cunningham probably refers to this 
monument in his letter of the 30th September, 1860 (Ante XXIX. 
p- 395), in which he makes mention of a Maharaja Bhoja Deva in 
Gwalior. If my reading of the date of the Sarun plate, which I offer 
as a mere conjecture, be correct, the dates of Devas/akti’s descendants 
at eighteen years per reign would be 
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SeNdeabhiabtas th ake. fo ale eet) TA Cpe 
An [Rene OE NCbE Asoc conede ect 6 A. C. 832 
5 Bhoja,\/. ....1-- A. C. 850 
6 Mahendra Pala, j A. C. 868 
fy (BOY ange ss Bes Racthiiae eee castooneaes | PARSE ASS85 
8 Vinayaka Pala, ............+ A. C. 900 
Should the data upon which my dates are founded be not deemed 
satisfactory, and the dates therefore not acceptable, still the Bhojas 
of Devas’akti’s dynasty will not be confounded with the great sove- 
reign of Dhara. When Professor Wilson wrote his paper on the 
_ history of Kashmir, he knew of only one Bhoja between the tenth 
* My note on this record was read before a meeting of the Asiatic Society held 
on the 2nd of July, 1862. It is likely to be published in the volume for this year. 
+ Ante, Vol. XXXI, p. 6. 
