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Bhoja was King of Malwa from 1010 until his death in 1055. ... The Ghaznavids, a Muslim dynasty of Turkic origin, invaded north-western India in the 11th century, ...
Bhoja was a devotee of Vishnu and adopted the title of Ādivarāha, which is inscribed on some of his coins. [1] [better source needed]. One of the outstanding political figures of India in the ninth century, he ranks with Dhruva Dharavarsha and Dharmapala as a great general and empire builder. [2]
The Bhoja tribes were a collection of semi-Aryan ancient tribes, located in India during the Late Vedic Period. They are described as being an offshoot of the Yadava tribe in the Indian epic of Mahabharata. They were a branch of the Andhaka clan, who were in turn descendants of the Satvata clan descended from King Yadu. [2]
According to a legend in Merutunga's Prabandha-Chintamani, when Bhoja visited Srimala, he told the poet Magha about the "Bhojasvāmin" temple that he was about to build, and then left for Malwa (the region in which Bhojpur is located). [5] However, Magha (c. 7th century) was not a contemporary of Bhoja, and therefore, the legend is ...
Bhoja dynasty also known as Bhojas of Goa, [1] [2] were a dynasty that ruled Goa, parts of Konkan, and some parts of Karnataka from at least the 3rd century AD to the 6th century. They were feudatories to the Mauryas of Konkana , and possibly to the Chalukyas of Vatapi who expelled the Mauryas. [ 3 ]
A statue of Bhoja in Bhopal. The 11th century Paramara king Bhoja ruled from his capital at Dhara (Dhar in present-day Madhya Pradesh, India).The period of his reign is dated approximately 1010 CE to 1055 CE, although some historians believe that he ascended the throne before 1010 CE.
Inscriptions from Bhoja's reign have been found in present-day Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan states of India Bhoja was an Indian king from the Paramara dynasty , whose kingdom was centered around the Malwa region in present-day Madhya Pradesh .
Bhojpur takes its name from king Bhoja (reg. c. 1000–1055 CE), the most celebrated ruler of the Paramāra dynasty. [4] There is no archaeological evidence from Bhojpur before the eleventh century, a fact confirmed by local legends which recount how Bhoja made a vow to build a series of dams "to arrest the streams of nine rivers and ninety-nine rivulets".