Town · The Yadavas (Seunas) of Devagiri · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Achalpur

Ellichpur (now Achalpur) is the chief town of the Payanghat, the cotton-and-wheat plain below the Melghat hills at the northern edge of Berar, and the gate of the road into the Satpura forest.

The legendary founder is a Jain king, 'Ail'; Jain shrines still stand in the foothills (from memory). The Yadavas hold west Berar; the ground east of the Wardha towards the Gond forest is thinly held. Nothing I read names a lord of the town; it is drawn as a Yadava district centre and no more.

Who holds it

Title
The king's officer at Ellichpur
Since
not pinned
Born
not known
Confidence
low

West Berar is Yadava on the realm record; the sources we read name no governor and no local chief.

Lord in 1200

A Yadava officer; no name known.

Overlord

Yadava crown

How things stand that morning

Yadava on thin evidence; far from Devagiri.

Communities

Marathi-speaking cultivators and traders; Jain households; Korku and Gond hill people in the hills above.

Walls and castle

Not known for 1200.

Trade and crafts

Cotton of the Payanghat (board 'the-berar-cotton'); grain; forest produce from the Melghat.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: No page read this session covers Ellichpur. The Yadava hold of west Berar rests on the realm record; the rest is from memory and the campaign board.

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

Primary sources for Yadava kingdom (Devagiri)

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.

  • Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Various (Kakatiya chancery and temple scribes), edited by P. Sreenivasachar (inscriptions of the 10th to 15th centuries; edited 1940 to 1942). The Kakatiyas of Orugallu (Warangal) are known for 1200 almost entirely from inscriptions, and this Hyderabad Archaeological Series corpus is the main printed collection. Read online
  • Epigraphia Carnatica: inscriptions of the Mysore country, Various (Hoysala chancery and temple scribes), edited by B. Lewis Rice and R. Narasimhachar (inscriptions of the 4th to 19th centuries; the series ran from 1886 to 1905, revised from 1972). The Hoysala kingdom of Veera Ballala II (reigning 1173 to 1220) is documented almost wholly by the inscriptions in this series, arranged by district and taluk with full English translations. Read online
  • Inscriptions of the Silaharas, Various (Silahara chanceries), edited by V. V. Mirashi (inscriptions of the 9th to 13th centuries; edited 1977). Collects the records of the three Silahara houses: North Konkan (Thana), South Konkan, and Kolhapur.
  • Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions relating to the Yadava Kings of Devagiri, Various (Yadava chancery), edited by J. F. Fleet (inscriptions of the 12th and 13th centuries; edited 1876). The first collected edition of the Yadava (Seuna) records, with texts and translations, from the Indian Antiquary. Read online

Sources and studies

  1. General knowledge of the medieval Deccan (Bhandarkar, Altekar, Sastri, B. R. Gopal, Suryanath Kamath): from memory, not re-read
  2. Wikipedia: Seuna (Yadava) dynasty (read this session)
  3. OMNIA board notes for this 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.