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Maharaj Bhoj probably the greatest ruler of India after Great Vikramaditya.
He was born in a RAJPUT clan called Parmar.Parmar means 'one who k!||$ the enemy ('Par' -enemy, and 'mar'- k!||€r).
Prabhavaka Charita has reference to Bhojadeva as: "मालवाधीशो विद्वच्चक्रशिरोमणिः

Raja Bhoja was truly extraordinary monarch, a patron of arts, & himself a scholar and writer. As Vikramaditya is synonymous with valor, so Bhoja is famous for his poetic ability, his scholarship in several fields and his patronage of arts.

Other kings may have built temples and palaces, but Bhoja actually compiled an authoritative architectural treatise called Samarangana Sutradhara. This remarkable work on the science of architecture and sculpture (Vastusastra and Silpasastra) consists of eighty-three chapters.

Bhojpur in Bihar and BHOJPURI language got it's name from Raja Bhoj coz Ujjaynia Parmars of Ujjain migrated to east,
Ujjainiya Parmars fought Jaunpur Sultanate fr 100 yrs till their end, later fought British army in 1857. Veer Kunwar Singh ws Ujjainiya Parmar Rajput.

After establishing his rule over North,Raja Bhoja organized his armies to attack Mahmud Ghaznavi who had invaded Somnath. Ghaznavi fearing the powerful army of bhoja retreated via the desert of sindh to avoid a clash with the hindu king and lost many of his men.

Bhoja realizing the national threat from !$|am, organized a confedration of Hindu kings including the kalachuri lakShmI-karNa, the Chahamana and other RajpUts to fight the Ghaznavid Maliq Salar Masud. In the great battle of Bahraich the Hindu confedracy fought a pitched battle

for about a month with the Moslems and completely defeated them killing, Salar Masud in the process. They then went on to liberate Hansi, Thaneshvar, Nagarkot and other cities taken by the Ghaznavids and marched against Lahore and besieged it.

Just at the point Lahore was about to fall to them, the Hindu kings had a disagreement over who would own the liberated territories and their armies disbanded and dispersed in a huff. bhoja started fighting his erstwhile allies in the war against the Moslems.

Bhoja 1st defeated the Chahamanas of shakambhari, bt the Chahamanas of nadola repulsed his attempt. bhoja next tried to seize the kingdom of the chandellas, but they formed an alliance with the Rashtrakutas of Kannauj and kachchapaghatas of Gwalior and repulsed him.

bhoja however, did keep the ghaznavids in check with help from his shishodia feudatories. bhoja then seized the territory of the western chAlukya bhIma of Gujarat. bhima unfazed by this formed an alliance with haihaya, to attack bhoja in a two front war on both east and west.

bhoja was caught in the pincer grip, and while fighting his two enemies he was shot down by an arrow on the battle field. Thus, the great rAja bhoja having spent his career in numerous campaigns had fallen like a true Kshatriya in the defense of his capital.

Hence its said that when he was alive the poets would say Today dhara is ever supported, and the Goddess Sarasvati is ever propped up. All the pundits are adorned with the coming of king Bhoja on this earth.

When he fell in the defending dhArA they said:
adya dhArA nirAdhArA nirAlambA sarasvatI |
paNDitAH khaNDitAH sarve bhojarAje divaM gate ||"
Today dhArA is unsupported, goddess Sarasvati is without a prop. All the pundits are scattered with the ascent of king Bhoja to heaven.

The Malwa great Parmar Rajput Ruler of  'Raja Bhoj' descendants Princely state of Baghal the then Raja Dhiyan Singh in his Princely Court(year 1890 C.E.

Bhoja Raja constructed several spectacular temples, one of the most dramatic of which is seen in the form of the great temple of shiva termed bhojeshvara at bhojapura a some distance from the city of Bhopal.

Another notable construction, which is a historical civil engineering masterpiece, is the bhoja lake which was built by daming and channelizing the Betwa river. upper Lake in Bhopal, a small remnant of Bhojpur Spread over 650 sq kms from Bhopal to Barkheda,

This is largest man made lake in India with either of over 100ft ,Built on the river Betwa and by diverting
the nearby Kaliasot river, the lakewas a true feat of Hindu engineering.
It started with 2 earthen dams 40 ft high & 100 feet broad at top 20 miles off modern Bhopal .

He is also supposed to have paid great attention to the education of his people, so much so that even humble weavers in kingdom are supposed to have composed metrical sanskrit kAvyas. Paramāra Maharajadhirāja Bhoja - had earlier built Shārdasadan & beautified Dhārā Nagarī.

In addition to patronizing the ancient schools in ujjaini he also built a large university in bhojapura with an attached temple of sarasvatI in 1034 CE
This university was apparently attended by 1400 ad students, and also housed a number of noted sanskrit writers and poets.

The university was later destroyed by Dilaawar Khan Ghori and Mahmud Khalji during their invasions of Malava
The sarasvatI idol from the temple was taken by the Britons to the museum in London
Bhojaśālā,a Saraswatī Mandir & center of learning named after the Paramāra Bhoja.

One of the greatest contribution of Maharaja bhoja was his m@$$@cre of Nilpattas ' a subset of Charvaks' who used to be degenerates promoted liquor, meat ,sex and mocked dharma. Chad Bhojdeva 😎