Joshimath

Who holds it

Name

not known for 1200

Title

Head (shankaracharya) of Jyotirmath

Since

not known

Born

not known

Family

By tradition Totakacharya was the first head; the succession is not recorded for the twelfth century.

Confidence

low

Wikipedia Joshimath.

What it holds

• The matha and its endowments (not itemised)

Allies and rivals

Katyuri successors and the Garhwal chiefs.

How things stand that morning

A matha and a winter station on the pilgrim road.

Where the sources disagree

• The brief names "the Shankara-matha of Joshimath"; its list of heads for 1200 is not pinned.

Evidence: Wikipedia Joshimath; nothing for the decade.

On the map: A point.

Primary sources for Hill rajas

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.

• The River of Kings, with Jonaraja's continuation, Kalhana; continued by Jonaraja (Kalhana 1148 to 1150; Jonaraja about 1459). Kalhana's chronicle stops in 1149, so for 1200 the witness is Jonaraja, writing three centuries later and very briefly. Read online
• The Gopala Raja Chronicle, and the Nepalese colophons, Anonymous (chronicle); various scribes (colophons) (the chronicle about 1389; the colophons are contemporary notes of the 11th to 14th centuries). The Nepal valley in 1200 is known chiefly from dated manuscript colophons and short inscriptions, which name the reigning king with the Nepal era year, and from the Gopalarajavamsavali, a chronicle written about 1389 that lists the kings with regnal years.