Introduction
The present project aims at making available the complete works of Bhojaraja who was commonly known as Dharadhisa or Bhoja and an illustrious son of the Goddess Sarasvati, born in the family of the Paramar kings who ruled about 350 years in the central and western part of the Indian continent from 850 A.D. to 1200 A.D. from Dhara Nagari.
Bhoja is credited to have written about 84 books out of which some have been published and others are still lying in the MSS. forms in the old libraries of Madras, Tanjore, Trivendrum, Mysore, Poona, Ujjayini and Benaras. In the Catalogus Catalogorum pt. I. P.488, we are told that Bhojaraja wrote 38 books. Apart from Bhoja's own writings, most contemporary writers and later works such as Desinamala, Yasastilakacampu, Sukranitisara Navasahasankacarita, Rasamala, Rajatarangini, likramankadevacarita, Manasollasa, Prabhandhacintamani, Bhoja-Prabandha and Simhasanadvatrimsika, have recorded in details, the achievments of Bhoja with interest and authority.
On the basis of information collected from the inscriptions issued by Bhoja himself and other contemporary writers, Bhoja ruled in the Malvaterritory from Saka 915 to Saka 973 corresponding to 933 A.D. to 1051 A.D. i.e. about 59 years. In accordance with the information supplied by Bhoja himself, he wrote the work Rajamrganka, an astronomical treatise in Saka 964 corresponding to 1042 A.D.
