Question

in what kind of scholarship did king bhoj belive?

Answer 1

Like the "Baital Pachisi", it begins with how Vikramaditya succeeded his brother Bhartrihari to the throne of Ujjayini as the latter renounced the world in disgust after the sordid affair of the fruit bestowing immortality he had presented his wife — and where it ended up. It devotes another chapter to his glory, his eventual death and the hiding away of his throne, before coming to the story in earnest.
King Bhoj and his courtiers, on a hunt, pass by the fields of a Brahmin, sitting on a small mound to oversee his ripening crops, and he invites them to come and take their fill. But as they enter and he comes down to meet them, he complains they are spoiling the harvest. As they leave and he returns to the mound, he calls them back and the same process repeats itself.
Bhoj suspects there is something in the mound, orders it dug, comes across the throne, which has thirty-two statuettes of angels carved into it, and has it brought to his palace. But whenever he ascends, one of the statuettes comes to life and asks him if he can match Vikramaditya's sterling qualities, each illustrated by a tale about him, interspersed with some key advice about life. King Bhoj and his courtiers, on a hunt, pass by the fields of a Brahmin, sitting on a small mound to oversee his ripening crops, and he invites them to come and take their fill. But as they enter and he comes down to meet them, he complains they are spoiling the harvest. As they leave and he returns to the mound, he calls them back and the same process repeats itself.
Bhoj suspects there is something in the mound, orders it dug, comes across the throne, which has thirty-two statuettes of angels carved into it, and has it brought to his palace. But whenever he ascends, one of the statuettes comes to life and asks him if he can match Vikramaditya's sterling qualities, each illustrated by a tale about him, interspersed with some key advice about life.