1863. ] Bhoja Rijd of Dhir and his Homonyms. 105 
learning and learned men, although the Bhoja-Prabandha devotes 
three-fourths of its space to recounting the names of the several 
poets who graced his court and to choice selections from their com- 
positions, and it is all but certain that the 2Rdjamdrtanda and the 
commentary on the Yoga aphorisms which pass in the name of a 
Bhoja, owe their origin to his patronage. On the death of Bhoja, 
the country, says the inscription, was overrun by enemies, and anar- 
chy everywhere reigned supreme, until at last a kinsman (Bandhu)* 
of the name of Udayaditya assumed the sovereignty and brought 
‘peace and prosperity in his train. Laksmadeva the son of Udayaditya 
was a mighty prince. He stretched his arms over all India, and 
his conquests, says the chronicler, extended from Gour in the east to 
Balkh beyond Affghanistan, and from Mainak on the Himalaya, to 
Ceylon in the south; the countries especially named being Gour, 
Afiga, Kalinga, Tripura, Chola, Pandya, Ceylon, Mainak, and Balkh 
on the Oxus. Much of this no doubt is attributable to poetical 
hyperbole, for it is not at all likely that Lakshmadhara, a mere duke 
as he was, did wage war against Madhava Sena, the Vaidya king of 
Bengal, who erected pillars of victory even in Central India, or pro- 
ceed so far as Cabul to give battle to the Gaznavides in their own 
country. ‘The centre of northern India was at his time held by the 
Palas of Kanauj and they were not likely to fall a prey to the rapa- 
city of a vassal. His conquests in Chola, Pandya and Tripura may 
be facts, but they must have been of an ephemeral character. 
The Ujjayini plates decyphered by Colebrooke,f makes no mention 
of Lakshmadeva, but carries the succession from Udayaditya succes- 
sively to Naravarmadeva, Yasovarmadeva and the two sons of the last, 
namely, Jayavarmadeva and Lakshmivarmadeva. The Sattara plates 
call Lakshmadeva, the brother of Naravarma, and assign to the 
latter sufficient power to commute a grant of two villages made by 
* By a mistaken estimate of the first word in the following extract a writer 
in the Journal of the American Oriental Society has heen led to call Udayaditya 
the son of Bhoja. 
wasecateai faarareaargant | 
Sara Ua aI CNSgracaTe | 
J. A. O. 8. Vol. II. p. 29—35, Vol. I. p. 517. 
The Nagpur inscription has the word Bandhu though the decypherer read it 
dtmaya. Probably the same cause led the interpreter of the Madhukarghar 
inscription to call him the son of Bhoja. 
+ Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. II. p. 297. 
