Vatudasa and Sridharadasa

Who he is

Name

Vatudasa; Sridharadasa

Title

Great chief (mahasamanta) of the king and his friend; his son the anthologist

Since

Sridharadasa completes the Saduktikarnamrita in 1205 (Saka 1127, year 27 of Lakshmanasena)

Born

not known

Family

Sridharadasa is the son of Vatudasa, a feudatory and friend of the king (our memory of the colophon; English Wikipedia names only Sridharadasa as compiler).

Confidence

low

Wikipedia (Lakshmanasena): Shridharadasa compiled the Saduktikarnamrta during the reign. The father's rank and the date Saka 1127 are from our memory of the colophon, not checked in this work.

Overlord

Lakshmanasena.

What it holds

• Lands as a mahasamanta; location not known

Allies and rivals

The king; the poets.

How things stand that morning

Not recorded for 1200.

Military

Retinue.

Threats

• The court's fall

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. 1205The anthology is completed.Depends on: The father or son is at court. Stopped by: The court is dispersed.

Where the sources disagree

• We could not open the colophon; the father's title is marked low confidence.

Evidence: One anthology and memory of its colophon.

On the map: Not drawn: no location.

Primary sources for Senas of Bengal

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 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
• The Nasirid Generations: a General History of the Muslim Dynasties, Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (1259 to 1260, at Delhi). The Ghurid court's own history, by a man born in 1193 whose family served the sultans of Ghur and Ghazna. 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
• 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
• The History of India as Told by its Own Historians: the Muhammadan Period, vol. 2, Various (Ibn al-Athir, Hasan Nizami, Awfi, Juzjani and others), edited by H. M. Elliot and John Dowson (the sources date from the 1190s to the 14th century; the collection was published in 1869). A one-volume anthology of the Arabic and Persian accounts of the Ghurid conquest. Read online