Indian Antiquary Vol 46

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
ACGUST, 1917
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Now it is a significant fact that all the three well believe in the existence of a Bhojado va, Pram. worke-
, TATO and are of Malava, reigning round about Chitor in A.D.
665 and his patronage of Magha can no longer be u that give us accounts of the poet Magha
myth in point of chronology. take him a protégé of that literary magnet of the 1th century A.D., King Bhoja of Dhard. The
Bhojadeva and his son Mana are described in
the inscription as kings of Malave. This can well I may be dismissed as a roost reckless
be elucidated by a reference to the travels of piece of patchwork but the other two works are
Hiuen Tsiang. Hiuen Tsiang turned South-East Trever so wantonly fanciful. Both of them agree
from the Gurjara Kingdom and Caice to Ujjayini. in anaking Mágha a native of Srimêla and the
To the North-East of Ujjayini lie the small king. Taft, while recording genuine history in dom Chi-chi.to (Chitore 1) and to the North of Suprabhadeva having been a minister of Varmalita
armalita Chitor again lie Maheávarapura. All these three of Bhinmal, almost in the same breath asociates kingdoms are described as having been reigned Mlágha (the grandson of Suprabhadeva) with Bhoja: over by kings of the "Brahmin Caste" (meaning a f
a re atte: 1 ANT evidently non-Budhist) and inhabited by like AFTA weer : fra : || ( wiferent peoplos. It is apparent that the great kingdom y : v. 15, p. 197.) Moreover the following
of Malava in its Eastern portier-the Western verso is quoted in the
portion, the Ma-lo-pa of Hiuen under the
Triang, already joint authorship of Bhojadeva and Mågha :
annexed according to Smith to the kingdom of
Valabhi-then comprised a group of these three रेवतीवदनोच्छिष्ट परिपूतपुटे दृशौ । not very powerful kingdoms reigned over by वहन् हलीमदक्षी वःपानगोष्ठय पुनातुवः॥
different branches of the same race, the Pramára.
Bhojadeva the elder evidently ruled over the king. भौजदेवमाययोः W
dom of Chitor, where his son's reign ended. Mahes. (I. 48. 4, p. 62, Bibl. Indica Ed.)
varapura may also have been named afterMahevara, It is therefore not unlikely that the Association of one of the illustrious kings of the early Pramara Maghs with Bhojadeva has some truth behind it, race mentioned in the above inscription. It is also And now that the date of Magha has been fairly important that in Hiuen Tsiang's time the reigning
ottled we should seriously consider the question of king of Chitor "encouraged men of merit and the existence of more than one Bhojadeva in the learned scholars of other lands collected here in history of Western India. Col. Tod in his Rajasthan, numbers"(Watter's Yuan Cheung, Vol. II, p. 261). stated on the strength of a Jaina Chronogrammatic It is possible that the king whom Hiuen Tsiang saw Catalogue (obtained from the temple of Nadole),
was either Bhojadeva himself, if we allow him a that there were three Bhojas, all belonging to the
long reign, or his father, and this allusion to his Pramára race of MAlava, reigning respectively in
magnanimity is significant as showing that Bhoja. A. D. 576, 885 and 1042. The last Bhojadeva is
deva the elder was also a great a patron of learn. very well known and Col. Tod corroborated the
ing as his famous descendant and namesake of the existence of the second Bhojadeva of A. D. 665 by
11th century. Evidently the respective literary the Manwarowar inscription (found near Chitor) of
traditions about each came in course of time to be the Pramara king Mana, son of Bhoja of MAlava
confused and went to create an ideal, A sort of dated 770 V. S. (A. D. 714) (Vide Rajasthan, VoL
Magnus Bhoja, the very prototype of the legendary I, p. 92, note and pp. 799-8C1 : ins. No. III).
Vikramaditya, round whom all sorts of literary This inscription, to which Col. Tod justly attached
stories gathered. By this existence of an earlier HO much importance, has it seems been entirely Bhojadeva it is possible to olear many of the apmissed by all later scholars and does not find place
parently absurd synchronisms, such as that of Bana in Kielhorn'. List. It is not known if the inscrip and Mavura with Bhoja. tion can now be traced after such a length of time. But relying on Col. Tod's account of it we can
D. C. BHATTACHARYA, M.A.
NOTES AND QUERIES. NOTES FROM OLD FACTORY RECORDS. agreement. The Governour of this towne pretend 5. Proceedings for a Lease in 1682.
he hath much befreinded us in the makeing up of
this business and that the owner of the ground 12. October 1682. Consultation in Masulipatam.
hath spent more then he receives in the procure. Mauhmud Edgdee (Mahmud HAji), a Persian who
ment of orders from Court to have a Right and hath geverall years laid Claime to a peece of ground Justice dode him here, therefore clesires us to Con. in the midle of this Factory and given our prede- sider him and give him some small Tachareife Colours and selves Continuall trouble aboute (tashrt, complimentary present that he may goe keeping it, the business now being brought to an &way Contented, which to oblige the Governour, agreement for pagode : 157, he signing a lease for Counoell have thought fitt to present the aforesaid said ground to the Honoble. Company for ninety Mauhmud Edgdee' with 3 yards Broadcloth rosenine years before the Codgee &ca. officers (gázl and water and beetle [betel) which was gratefully other officers), and severall other eminent Persiana received by him. (Factory Records, Masulipatam, who have sett their hands and seales to the said vol. 4). leaso, in witness thereof tis therefore ordered the 167 pagod : be Imediatly paid him according to
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