Ganga court officers

Who he is

Name

not named for 1200

Title

Court and army officers (Maha Senapati, Senapati, Dalapati, Nayaka, Mahamandalika) and Brahman ministers

Since

not known

Born

not known

Family

Not known.

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia (Eastern Ganga dynasty; Anangabhima III). The earliest minister it names is Vishnu, a Brahman, minister, military adviser and commander of Anangabhima III (from 1211), who is credited in the Chateswara inscription with beating the Kalachuris and the Yavanas. Revenue ministers named for later: Damodar Badapanda and Isana Pattanayak (Madala Panji, later land settlement).

Overlord

Rajaraja III.

What it holds

• Provinces (maha mandala) under a Mahamandalika, then mandalas and visayas
• The right to collect the crown revenue and to issue grants in the king's name

How it was acquired

By appointment.

Allies and rivals

The temple servitors; the hill feudatories; the Kalachuri rivals on the west.

How things stand that morning

The offices stand; the holders are not known.

Wealth

Fees and village assignments.

Military

Senapati ranks command the levies; no numbers.

Threats

• Court faction after a young king's accession

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1211 onwardVishnu appears as minister, general and adviser of Anangabhima III and wins the war on the Bengal front and the Seori Narayana battle.Depends on: He is of age and in service by then. Stopped by: He is not born, or he is dead.

Where the sources disagree

• Assignment: "his ministers". No minister of this reign is named in the pages we could open; Vishnu is the first Ganga minister named, and he belongs to 1211 and after.

Evidence: Structure from the dynastic page, names from the next reign.

On the map: No holding drawn.

Primary sources for Eastern Gangas

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 Lesser Chronicle (the continuation of the Mahavamsa), Dhammakitti and later monks of the Mahavihara tradition (the first continuation about the 13th century (chapters 37 to 79), carried on in stages to the 18th century). The only narrative source for Lanka in 1200. Read online
• Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3, Various (the Sena kings' chanceries), edited by N. G. Majumdar (copper plates of the 10th to early 13th centuries; edited 1929). The one-volume edition of the Sena copper plates, the main documentary evidence for Bengal around 1200. 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
• Epigraphia Zeylanica: lithic and other inscriptions of Ceylon, Various (the Polonnaruwa kings' chanceries), edited by D. M. de Zilva Wickremasinghe, H. W. Codrington and S. Paranavitana (inscriptions of the 3rd century BC to the 18th century; the series ran from 1904). Prints with translation the stone records of the Polonnaruwa kings who held or lost the throne around 1200. Read online
• The Song of Govinda, Jayadeva (late 12th century, by tradition at the court of Lakshmanasena of Bengal). A literary witness, not a chronicle. Read online