108 Bhoji Raja of Dhar and his Homonyms. [No. 2, 
1144.* Colebrooke supposed that Naravarma must have died in 
Samvat 1190, or otherwise his son could not celebrate the anniver 
sary of his funeral in the year following. This, however, is not neces- 
sarily the case; for the sdémvatsarika or anniversary shrdddha is 
an observance which recurs every year, and therefore allusion to 
it implies any time beyond eleven lunisolar months and twenty-nine 
days; no matter whether it be one or many years.f Allowing for 
this uncertainty a range of only ten years, this much may be taken 
‘for granted that Naravarma died between 1180 and 1190 Samvat- 
Now if we allow him a reign of twenty-five years and a short one of 
fifteen to his father Udaydditya, the close of Bhoja’s reign will be 
placed between 1140 and 1150S. = A. C. 1083 to 1098, and the 
commencement of it at about the beginning of the eleventh century. 
It has been already assumed on the strength of Vakpati’s making 
grants of land in the neighbourhood of Ujjayini that he held sovereign 
power in that capital and the province in which it was situated, in 
the year of Vikrama 1086 = A. C. 980, and if we may attach any 
importanee to their ultra-regal titles, his predecessors for three 
generations were anointed kings, who most probably, though not 
necessarily, did reign at the same place immediately before him. 
Consequently it must follow that either Vairisiiha and his successors 
of the Sattara plate, including Siyaka, Munja and Bhoja, flourished 
after Vakpati and within 980 to 1083 A. C., or the latter was iden- 
tical with Munja. The first alternative would give a century for four 
reigns and that on the supposition that Vakpati died immediately 
after the grant named above, while we have the authority of the 
Kumarapdéla Charita to shew that Munja was alive in 1079 Samvat 
= A, C. 1020, when Durlabha visited him on his pilgrimage,t and 
that of tradition, the Bhoja Charita and the Bhoja Pravandha to 
assign to Bhoja a reign of fifty-five years, seven months and three 
days, which leaves only six years unaccounted for, and to be disposed 
of either by assignment to Munja or Udaydditya. Professor Lassen 
has accepted the traditionary reign of Bhoja, and I feel fully dis- 
* Colebrooke’s Misc. Essays, II. p. 299. 
+ Wilson, Lassen and others have adopted the interpretation of Colebrooke, but 
the practice of the sémvatsarikdsrdéddha is so strictly observed in the present day, 
that 1 make no hesitation in rejecting it, and in so doing I am glad to find I 
have the support of Professor Weber. 
{ Lassen’s Zeitschrift, Vol. VIL. p. 220, 
