Hoysaleshwara

Who holds it

Title

Temple trustees and priests (Shaiva)

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Confidence

low

No head is named in any source we read.

Overlord

Veera Ballala II

What it holds

• temple lands by royal grant

How it was acquired

By royal foundation.

How things stand that morning

A court temple, finished on Wikipedia's dating (1160); the campaign board has it still in building.

Wealth

Royal endowments; no figure.

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board places the Kedareshwara temple in the 1200 town with a range of about 1200 to 1219. Wikipedia's Hoysala architecture table gives 1200 and its Halebidu page gives no date. On 1 January it is just begun or not begun, so it is not part of this record.
• Board 'hoysaleshwara-temple': begun on a grant of 1121 and worked on for forty years, not finished on this date, towers never carried up. Wikipedia (Hoysaleswara Temple): construction about 1121, complete in 1160, towers on each sanctum now missing; an inscription found near Ghattadahalli names Ketamalla, an officer of Vishnuvardhana, as builder, with a grant of Saka 1043 (1121). Whether the towers stood in 1200 is not known.
• The Garuda pillar before the temple records a self-sacrifice after the death of Ballala II (Wikipedia, Hoysaleswara Temple), so the pillar is a later feature; see Kuvara Lakshma.

Evidence: The dates are from three Wikipedia pages and differ from the campaign board; the estates are inferred.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

Primary sources for Hoysala kingdom

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Epigraphia Carnatica: inscriptions of the Mysore country, Various (Hoysala chancery and temple scribes), edited by B. Lewis Rice and R. Narasimhachar (inscriptions of the 4th to 19th centuries; the series ran from 1886 to 1905, revised from 1972). The Hoysala kingdom of Veera Ballala II (reigning 1173 to 1220) is documented almost wholly by the inscriptions in this series, arranged by district and taluk with full English translations. Read online
• Inscriptions of the Silaharas, Various (Silahara chanceries), edited by V. V. Mirashi (inscriptions of the 9th to 13th centuries; edited 1977). Collects the records of the three Silahara houses: North Konkan (Thana), South Konkan, and Kolhapur.
• Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions relating to the Yadava Kings of Devagiri, Various (Yadava chancery), edited by J. F. Fleet (inscriptions of the 12th and 13th centuries; edited 1876). The first collected edition of the Yadava (Seuna) records, with texts and translations, from the Indian Antiquary. Read online
• South Indian Inscriptions (Archaeological Survey of India), Various (Chola, Pandya and other chanceries and temple scribes), edited by E. Hultzsch, V. Venkayya, H. Krishna Sastri and successors (inscriptions of the 7th to 17th centuries; the series ran from 1890). The temple inscriptions printed here are the primary record of the Tamil country in 1200. Read online