Mihira Bhoja I
ruler of the Gurjar Pratihara dynasty of India
815 CE to 885 CE
Mihira Bhoja I (836–885 CE) or Bhoja I is a ruler of the Gurjar Pratihara dynasty of India.
He succeeds his father Ramabhadra.
Bhoja is a devotee of Vishnu and adopts the title of Adivaraha which is inscribed on some of his coins.
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.
At its height, Bhoja's empire extends to Narmada River in the South, Sutlej River in the northwest, and up to Bengal in the east, encompassing a large area from the foot of the Himalayas up to the river Narmada and including the present district of Etawah in Uttar Pradesh.
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Pratihara monarch Ramabhadra III, who had inherited the Gurjaran throne from his father in 833, dies three years later, having in that time lost much of the empire his father had forged.
His son Bhoja succeeds him as king.
Pratihara monarch Bhoja dies in 885 after a successful fifty-four-year reign, during which he has restored the Gurjara empire to the borders ruled by his grandfather.
His son Mahendrapala succeeds him.