1863. Bhoja Raj a of Dhér and his Homonyms. 108 
him, therefore, ended the glory of the Pramara race at Dhara. Chaitan 
Pala, a great zemindar of the Tuar lineage, was elected the successor 
of Gajananda, and his descendants reigned in Dhara for 214 years. 
With the exception of the period of Bhoja’s reign the whole of 
these statements have been questioned. The story of Munja’s birth 
is purely mythical, designed more to account for the origin of his 
uncommon name than to narrate sober facts. Professor Lassen* is 
of opinion that Munja was really the uncle of Bhoja, and that he 
came to the throne by usurpation when his brother Sindhula, or 
whatever else was his name, was away from his capital on an expe- 
dition to the South. This may be to some extent inferred from the 
story which says that once when an astrologer foretold that Munja 
would take the kingdom from his brother, Sindhula ordered Munja 
to be beheaded and subsequently, repenting of his rash command, 
made his sceptre over to him, and retired to the South to found a 
kingdom of his own. The story of the jog and his metempsy- 
chosis may likewise be set down to pure invention, or a poetical 
euphyism for either a revolt at home or an invasion from the north 
which compelled Bhoja to fly from his kingdom for a time; and the 
accounts of his death and successors have been controverted by the 
testimony of authentic inscriptions recorded by his descendants. 
The parentage of Bhoja, as given by his biographers, has the sup- 
port of an inscription found by Col. Tod at Madhukarghar in 
Harouti,¢ but it differs from the biographers in giving the succes- 
sion of Bhoja to a relative, Udayaditya, whose descendants occupied 
the throne of Dhara for several generations. 
A second inscription from a temple on the west bank of the Weyne 
Ganga near Nagpur, decyphered by Pandit Ball Gungadhur Shastri 
of Bombay,t gives a different genealogy. According to it, the founder 
of Bhoja’s family was a Vairisiiha of the Pramara race, who was fol- 
lowed by his son Bhimaka, Bhimaka was succeeded by Raja Raja 
or Bhoja Raja, and he by his younger brother Bhadra Raja. Bhadra 
was the father of Bhoja Raja, and Bhoja left the kingdom to his son 
Udayaditya, whose son Naravarmadeva recorded the inscription. To 
* Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. VII. p. 345. 
+ Transact. RI. As. Soc. Vol. I. p. 226. It records the names of Sindhu, Sin- 
dhula, Bhoja, Udayaditya and Naravarma. 
{ Journal Bombay B. RK. A, Society, No, VI. p. 259. 
