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posed to acquiesce in it inasmuch as it would be impossible to account 
for his wide-spread fame over all India without allowing him a long 
and prosperous rule. 
It is possible that some persons may be disposed to divide Malwa 
into two principalities, assigning one with Ujjayini for its capital to 
the line of Vakpati, and the other with Dhara for its metropolis, to 
the house of Munja. But this would not be in keeping with the 
known fact of the successors of Bhoja having owned the whole of 
Malwa and a good deal beyond it for their dominion, and they were 
avowedly sovereigns of much less renown and acquisitive tendency 
than their ancestors ; not to advert to the rather improbable fact of 
Dhara and Ujjayini, having each a Siyaka and a Vairisiiha at the 
same time. 
A not very weighty objection to this identification of the two 
Vairisinhas and Siyakas arises from the tenor of one of the land 
grants of Vakpati which was ratified by a Rudraditya and which 
consequently implies his vassalage or subordination to him. A second 
grant of his, however, which is four years earlier, was issued without 
any ratification and under the authoritative declaration, “by my 
own order” @y BIwtiataa:. Besides the princes of Central India 
and indeed of India generally, held their power under such uncertain 
tenure and within such circumscribed areas that their independence 
and vassalage were matters of frequent recurrence and they cannot be 
used as arguments against their consecutive reigns in their own 
dominions. At any rate should the reign of Vakpati and his pre- 
decessors in Malwa be on this account doubted, still the relationship 
of Bhoja cannot for that reason suffer, while the dates of his 
suecessors leave no doubt as to his era. 
Those dates have been verified; first, by the inscriptions from 
Sattara and Nagpur which place Lakshmadeva and Naravarma in 
1161 S. = 1104; second, by three inscriptions from Ujjayini, one of 
which gives the dates of Yasovarma (HUG Se == AO 1137), and 
the other of his son Lakshmivarma (1200 8. = A. C. 1148) ; and 
third, by an inseription from Piplianagar* which places Arjunavar- 
ma the great grandson of Yasovrma in 8. 1272 = A.C. 1211—1215, 
and the statement of which has since been verified by a copper-plate 
* Ante, Vol. VII. p. 726. 
