202 A Donative Inscription of the Tenth Century. [No. 3, 
with them after the manner of the German antiquary. No credit is 
to he placed in the date he has appointed for them, or in the two 
dates given just before. 
A laudable soundness of judgment has been exercised in respect of 
the succession of Nos. 14 — 18. # Yet there is no foundation, beyond 
risk of challenge, for the belief, that any of them but Bhoja domi- 
nated over Malava ; and his domination seems to have embraced but 
a part of that country. 
So long as no better guarantee is producible than the careless com- 
pilation of Abulfazl, for the positions, that Bhoja had a son Jaya- 
chandra, and that Jayachandra was a king, he may confidently be 
accounted mythical.f 
Beginning with Bhoja, one line of princes who have ruled in 
Malava will now be enumerated, together with the known regnal 
years of each member of it. 
I. Bhoja. A. D. 1042 + 
* Good use has here been made of the Nagpoor inscription, — referred to in 
the Becond note to this paper, — which Professor Lassen has reedited and re- 
translated from a copy in facsimile. I have no access to the fruit of his research- 
es on it, and must, therefore, take upon trust his Munja and Sinharaja as uncle 
and father of bhoja. In the balance against a genuine inscription, the combined 
weight of the Bhoja-charitra and Bhoja-prabandha is as nothing. Now that 
we have Sinharaja, we may dismiss Sindhula as a mere invention. Nor need 
we bo deterred from this measure by Colonel Tod’s assertion, that Sindhula is 
read on marble at Madhukurgarh. for a parallel to the Colonel, in consistency of 
uncriticalness, and so in credulity, we should have to go to the Hindus them- 
selves ; and we are scarcely called upon to hesitate in presuming, that he altered 
the reading of his inscription into conformity with the silly romances to which 
he so easily accorded credence. See the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Soci- 
ety, Yol. 1., p. 226. 
t See the Indische Alterthumstcunde , Vol. III., p. 855 ; and the Ayhi-i-Alcbari, 
Vol. II., p. 46. 
1 See Colebrooke’s Miscellaneous Essays, Yol. II., p. 462. 
“ The Marwadi translation of the Sinhasana-dwatrins'ati ■ — if such an authority 
he worth anything — represents Bhoja to have been reigning in Samvat 1066, or 
A. I). 1009. With greater probability, Bhoja is found spoken of as contem- 
porary with Karna of Chedi, against whom Bhhnn Deva waged war between 
A. D. 1022 and io72. Bds-mdld, Vol. I., pp. 83 and 90.” Vdsavadattd , Pre- 
face, p. 50. 
In Colebrooke’s estimation, the story that Bhoja was predicted to be king for 
fifty-five years, seven months, and five days, not improbably “ is grounded 
upon a true tradition, that eventually such was the duration” of his reign. 
Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. I., p. 228. 
Bhoja’s ancestors were certainly regul ; but they cannot be positively assigned 
to Malava. 
In the Rdja-martanda , Bhoja of Dhara is entitled, by its author, Ranaran- 
gamalla. 
The verses said to have been reported to Munja, — when he supposed that Bhoja 
