The creeks and landings of the Barda coast and the Okhamandal peninsula, where the campaign board puts a pirate shore.
The evidence we could reach is thin for 1200: the later sources that call Gujarat's coast a nest of corsairs (Marco Polo, writing in the 1290s, recalled and not rechecked) come a century after, and no Chaulukya or Chudasama record we reached describes the pirates. We draw the belt because the brief allows it only where the evidence shows it and the campaign board shows it; treat it as a low-confidence belt.
Allies and rivals
Sea-raiding clans of the Okha and Barda creeks against coastal shipping; the Jethwa and Chudasama rajas and the Chaulukya crown are the nominal police.
Military
Last campaign: not documented. Anchors: Dwarka and Okha on the Okhamandal side; Porbandar and Ghumli on the Barda.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board; Marco Polo from memory (a late source).
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Low confidence: the pirate shore is a board reading with a later parallel, not a source for 1200.
Primary sources for Independent Rajput houses
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 Crown of Glorious Deeds, Hasan Nizami (Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Hasan Nizami of Nishapur) (begun about 1205 at Delhi, carried on to about 1217). The earliest history written in Muslim India and the only contemporary account of Qutb al-Din Aibak's campaigns. Read online
- The Nasirean Generations (a general history of the Muslim dynasties), Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (completed 1260 at Delhi). The fullest narrative of the Ghurid conquest of northern India. Read online
- Epigraphia Indica: inscriptions of the Chandelas, Paramaras, Gahadavalas, Chaulukyas, Senas and Eastern Gangas, Various (edited for the Archaeological Survey of India by J. Burgess, E. Hultzsch, F. Kielhorn, Sten Konow, F. W. Thomas and successors) (inscriptions of the 1180s to 1210s; the series ran from 1892). The main record series for the Hindu kingdoms of northern India around 1200. Read online
- Historical Inscriptions of Gujarat, Various (the Chaulukya and Vaghela chanceries), edited by G. V. Acharya (inscriptions of the 10th to 14th centuries; edited 1933 to 1942). The standard corpus of Gujarat's inscriptions. Read online
- Inscriptions of the Paramaras, Chandellas, Kachchhapaghatas and two minor dynasties, Various, edited by H. V. Trivedi (inscriptions of the 9th to 14th centuries; edited 1978 to 1991). The collected records of the Paramaras of Malwa (parts 1 and 2) and of the Chandelas of Jejakabhukti (part 3), re-edited from Epigraphia Indica and earlier journals with new finds.
- The Victory of Prithviraja, Jayanaka (a Kashmiri poet at the Chahamana court) (about 1191 to 1192, left unfinished). A court epic written at Ajmer in the months between Prithviraja III's victory at Tarain in 1191 and his defeat and death in 1192. Read online
- The Wishing-Stone of Narratives, Merutunga (a Jain monk of the Nagendra gaccha) (1305 (Vikrama 1361) at Vadhvan in Gujarat). A Jain collection of historical anecdotes about the kings of Gujarat and Malwa, a century after 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
- OMNIA board notes for the place (a lead only; checked against the sources above)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.