Magnates and their honours · Contested ground · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Sindas

The Sindas are a family of local chiefs with branches on both sides of the Tungabhadra: the Sindavadi marches north of the river (sid's ground) and a branch in the Shivamogga country.

Their loyalty follows the nearer army; the campaign board shows Kurugodu taken by Vishnuvardhana and again by Ballala II, 'which tells you it did not stay taken'.

Who he is

Name
not known for 1 January 1200 (Rachamalla II is the Sinda ruler named in the Kurugodu inscriptions, which Wikipedia dates by gifts of 6 December 1173 and 24 October 1181; nothing shows him alive in 1200)
Title
Sinda chief
Since
not pinned
Born
not known
Family
Sinda, an old Karnataka feudatory family with branches at Yelburga (Sindavadi 1000), Kurugodu and Belagutti
Confidence
low

Wikipedia (Kurugodu) gives an inscription recording gifts to a Shiva temple of 6 December 1173 and 24 October 1181 and a second inscription of the same reign, that of the Sinda ruler Rachamalla II, and places the fort in the district of Ballakunde. We could not read a page on the Sinda dynasty (the page we tried was not found). Kurugodu and Yelburga lie north of the Tungabhadra and belong to the sid sheet.

Overlord

not pinned (Hoysala at Kurugodu on the campaign board's reading; Yadava in the north)

What it holds

  • their own forts and villages on the Tungabhadra edge

How it was acquired

Hereditary.

Allies and rivals

Hoysala and Yadava.

How things stand that morning

Client houses in a patchwork.

Wealth

River country, rice.

Military

Local levies.

Threats

  • Both kingdoms

Places of note

  • Hampi (the Pampa shrine): river shrine of Virupaksha and Pampa on the south bank of the Tungabhadra; a Hoysala inscription of about 1199 records temples to Durga, Hampadevi and Shiva (Wikipedia, Hampi)

Where the sources disagree

  • Kurugodu (board 'kurugodu') lies in Ballari district, north of the Tungabhadra, which the regional brief gives to sid; no sid record carries the campaign board id, so it is written here as Kurugodu and drawn contested.
  • Hampi: Wikipedia (Hampi) says the Hoysalas built temples to Durga, Hampadevi and Shiva there 'according to an inscription dated about 1,199 CE' and enlarged the Manmatha tank with a Durga shrine in 1199. That is a year before the game and puts Hoysala work on the south bank of the Tungabhadra in the Sinda country. The campaign board has Hampi under the Hoysalas (likely); sid's record Hampi leaves the Hoysala work out and calls the place a river shrine on the line between the Hoysala and Yadava claims.

Evidence: The campaign board, one Wikipedia page on Kurugodu and a family type; no chief is named for 1200.

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

Sources and studies

  1. Kurugodu, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
  2. Hampi, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
  3. OMNIA board notes for the place (a lead, checked against the other sources)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.