[3] The Bhoja seat of power was located at Chandrapura or Chandraura (modern Chandor) in Goa.
[4] The earliest reference to Bhojas is found in rock edits of Ashoka as well as Bhavishya Purana.
While ruling Chandramandala area from Chandraura, their territory might have extended Goa, parts of North Canara and Belgaum districts of Karnataka.
Egyptian geographer Ptolemy, and the unknown author of Periplus of the Erythraean Sea has named this tract of the Bhojas as Arieke (Sodon).
[7] A number of Copper-plates found in Goa assigned to 4th to 7th century A.D. reveal names of Bhoja Kings.