3862.] 
899 
Yestiges of the 'Kings of Gwalior. 
Gopagiri. The king flourished in Gwalior in the year 876 i. e. much 
more than a century before the great Bhoja of Dhara, predecessor of 
Udayaditya and the hero of the Bhoja-prabandha , and three centuries 
after the first (540) and two after the second Bhoja of Col. Tod (Jain 
MSS. 665). He was different too from the Bhojas of Bengal recorded 
by Tieffenthaler (Bernouli’s Description liistorique &c. de l’lnde, 
Yol. I. p. ), and that of the Thaneswara inscription noticed by me 
(Journal Asiatic Society, Yol. XXII. p. 673). Almost every one of 
these Bhojas, called himself a “ Lord Paramount,” and the genealogy 
of several are wanting. It becomes, therefore, a matter of great concern, 
how superficial antiquarians jump into conclusions as to the date of 
any particular record from the mere name of Bhoja occurring in it. 
Judging from the date the sovereign under notice would appear to be 
one of the two Bhojas of Kanouj, whose supremacy is known to have 
extended to the S. W., considerably beyond the boundary of Agra, 
and Gwalior in their da} r s was a part of that district. The date, 
however, is open to question. The first figure is peculiarly formed 
and may be taken for a 7, which would carry the prince to A. C. 676 
(=: S. 733) or within eleven years of the 2nd Bhoja of Col. Tod, with 
whom he may be taken to be identical. 
For a long time after Bhoja, we know nothing of the history of 
G walior. According !o Tieffenthaler, 71 princes of the house of Pala 
reigned for 860 years, at an average of 12 years per reign. If we 
allow at that rate, 168 years to the remaining 14 princes of his list 
whose reigns are not recorded, the era of the last would be brought 
to the beginning of the 14th century (1303)—but it appears 
from the inscriptions before us, that the supremacy of the Palas had 
passed away in the middle of the 10th century, for we find Ma- 
hendra Chandra son of Madhava on the throne of Gwalior in 958, and 
Yajradama 20 years after him. Mahendra is noticed in an inscription, 
(Plate I. fig. 5,) recorded on the pedestal of a Jain figure at Suhaniya 
which was dedicated by him. His name, however, appears without 
the usual regal titles and his claim to royalty may therefore be 
questioned. The writing of the record is interrupted by Jain 
emblems. The last word is incorrectly given ; it is evidently a cor¬ 
ruption of 'pratistliita. It is dated Samvat 3013. 
Yajradama likewise appears on the pedestal of a Jain figure which was 
consecrated on the 5th of the waxing moon in the month of Vais'dkha, 
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