The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.140

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Bhojakaṭa-pura—The second capital of Vidarbha, founded by Rukmi, the brother of Rukmiṇī who was the consort of Kṛṣṇa. It was near the Nerbada (Harivaṃśa, ch. 117). Bhojakaṭapura, or in its contracted form Bhojapura, may be identified with Bhojapura, which is six miles to the south-east of Bhilsa (Vidiśā) in the kingdom of Bhopal containing many Buddhist topes called Pipaliya Bijoli Topes. Ancient Vidarbha, according to General Cunningham, included the whole kingdom of Bhopal on the north of the Nerbada (Bhilsa Topes, p. 363). The Bhojas ruled over Vidarbha and are mentioned in one of Aśoka's Edicts (see Dr. Bhandarkar's Hist. of the Dekkan, III). In the Chammak Copperplate inscription of Pravarasena II of the Vākāṭaka dynasty, Bhojakaṭa is deseribed as a kingdom which coincides with Berar or ancient Vidarbha, and Chammak, i.e., the village Charmāṅka of the inscription, four miles south-west of Elichpur in the Amraoti district, is mentioned as being situated in the Bhojakaṭa kingdom (Corp. Ins. Ind., III, 236; JRAS., 1914, p. 321). For further particulars, see Bhojapur (1) in Part II of this work.