110 Bhoji Raja of Dhar and his Homonyms. [No. 2 
from Sehore bearing the same date.* These leave no doubt as to 
Bhoja’s reign having closed between 1083 to 1093 of the Christian 
era, and taking the traditionary period of his reign to be correct, his 
accession to the throne of Dhara would be placed in the year 1026. 
This would give a reign of near fifty years to Vakpati alias Munja, 
which under ordinary circumstances cannot but raise our suspicion, 
but with the date before us we must accept it as a fact until otherwise 
settled by future enquiry. 
A stone inscription from Bhera Ghat on the Nurbudday calls 
Alhanddevi, the queen of Gaydkarnadeva of Chedi, the grand- 
daughter through her mother, of Udayaditya, and makes one of her 
sons, Narasiiha, reign in the year A. C. 907, another, Jayasifiha, in 
928, and her great grandson, Ajayasifiha, a minor, in 932. This car- 
ries Udayaditya a century before Bhoja. The anachronism, however, 
may be explained if we assume the Samvat of the inscription to be 
other than that of Vikrama, probably of Vallabhi, though it is doubt- 
ful if that era ever extended so far as Chedi. 
Commenting on an inseription from Oodeypur near Sagore, Mr. 
Torrens{ was led to assign Udayaditya to the seventh century, and 
Lassen adopting that assignment made it correspond with the 
date given in the Ayin Akbery. But the transcript of the document 
as decyphered by Kamalakanta is so full of lacunz and so imperfect 
with all, that it has no claims whatever to any consideration. The 
Udayaditya era supposed to be mentioned in it is simply the result 
of an illusion. f 
Bentley places the close of Bhoja’s reign in the year of Christ 1082,§ 
which differs from our assignment by only a single year. —Lassen’s 
date is wider by ten years, owing to his having assumed the death 
of Naravarma to have taken place in 1190 and not a few years 
before it, as we assume to have been the case. The differences, how- 
ever, are so slight that they cannot affect the general conclusion that 
Bhoja Pramara lived in the middle of the eleventh century, his reign 
spreading to within a few years of 1026 to 1083 of the Christian era. 
* Journal American Oriental Society, Vol. VII. p. 24. 
+ Idem, Vol. VI. p. 499. 
t Ante, Vol. IX. p. 545. 
§ Asiatic Researches, Vol. VIII. p. 243. 
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