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guished antiquarians as Col. Cunningham and the Professor Weber, 
to whom oriental scholars are so deeply indebted for their varied and 
most interesting researches into the past history of India, should, from 
a mere identity of names, infer the identity of persons, and yet the 
extracts quoted above shew that both of them found the name of a 
Bhoja in the monument under notice and per saltum came to the 
conclusion that it was that of Dhara, overlooking altogether that the 
last prince was the son of Sindhula and grandson of Sindhu,* whereaS 
the potentate named in the record before them was the son of Rama- 
chandra and grandson of Devaraja. One of the Kanauj Bhojas was 
the son of a Ramabhadra,} but there is nothing to shew that Rama- 
bhadra was an alias of Ramachandra, and their ancestors are quite 
different. Leaving aside, therefore, the question of date, the reading 
of which has been doubted, the bare fact of the two princes being 
descended from separate parents ought to leave no doubt of their 
having been different individuals, born, all but positively, at different 
periods. 
As to the date of the potentate named in the Thaneswar record, 
the facsimile now published will shew as clearly as possible that it is 
279 Samvat. If I assume with my eritics that a cypher after the 
first figure has been overlooked or accidentally omitted by the 
engraver, a circumstance not very likely and yet not quite impossible, 
for engravers are liable to err, though not quite so often as copyists, 
the date will be 2079 which will carry the era of the prince, as afore- 
said, nearly a hundred and sixty years into futurity. To assume a 1 
before the first figure, would be a guess at random which can claim 
no confidence. The writer in the Zeitschrift quoted above, -suggests 
the possibility of the Samvat alluded to in the record, being other 
than that of Vikramaditya ; but we know of no Samvat which can 
be adopted with perfect propriety. Next to the era of Vikrama, the 
Samvat of Ballabhi was the best known in Malwa, and its zero being 
318 A. C.f our date would be 318 + 279 = A. C. 597, which would 
be too early for the style of the characters im which the record is 
incised. The Samvat of the Sena Rajas of Bengal§ commenced in 
* Madhukarghar inscription, Transact. Royal Asiatic Society, London, Vol. 
I. p. 
+ Ante, Vol. xvii. pt. I. p. 72. 
{ Thomas’s Prinsep, Vol. II. p. 158. 
§ Ditto do. p, 272. 
