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The inscription No. X. (v. 42 and 46,) records the successful aid given by- 

 two chiefs of another tribe, of the GuJiila Rajputs, to tlie Guzerat prince, against 

 the Mohammedans. It is possible that the first, Jaitra Sinii, was one of the 

 confederacy against KuTTEB, butit is not clear to what aggression Samara Sinh, 

 the son ofTfijA Sinii, could have been opposed; as the period at which he 

 flourished, about a. d. 1286, precaded, by eleven years, the nearest invasion 

 on record, that of Allauddin, The events might have occurred in the reign 

 of Balin, although we are told his policy was directed to oppose the Moguls^ 

 rather than encroach upon his Hindu neighbours. 



The GuMla Rajputs, called Goliel by Abiilfazl, and Goil by Lieutenant 

 Macmurdo, are one of the leading tribes of Guzerat : their genealogy is very 

 fully detailed in inscription No, X. and it comprehends a name of great note in 

 the traditions of the Hindus, that of Bhoja, the third of the line. The precise 

 date of the prince's reign is not yet determined upon sufficient data, but we may, 

 perhaps, be allowed to take it at a. d. 1030. From Bhoja to Samara Sinh, are 

 twenty-one reigns, and the date of the latter, according to the inscription, is a. d. 

 1286; giving, therefore, 256 years, or something more than twelve years to a 

 reign. An average, no doubt, rather low, but not below the possible proportion 

 on a long line of martial chiefs, and not sufficient, therefore, to invalidate the 

 identity of this Bhoja, with the celebrated monarch of Dhar, 



A more weighty objection, however, arises to their identification, from the 

 tenour of an inscription found at Madliuhara Glier, by Major Tod, the sub- 

 stance of which isgiven by him (T. ll.A.S.i.223) and by which it appears, that 

 the son of Bhoja was named Udayaditya, and that his son was Naraverma, 

 who, by an inscription found at Ujayw, died in S. 1191, or a. d 1135. If the 

 Madhukara inscription be correctly interpreted, then Bhoja could not have 

 died much earlier than IO7O, and we can scarcely suppose that twenty-one reigns 

 occurred in 216 years, or at the rate of little more than ten years to a reign. 



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