A Kalyani Chalukya temple town with the Trikuteshvara group and the Saraswati shrine, with Hoysala-period additions not dated in our sources; a pivot of the Belvola between the Tungabhadra and the Malaprabha.
The campaign board says the tenure in 1200 is Hoysala by conquest, recorded in Ballala's grants; the grants are not in our sources, and no source we read says who sits in Gadag fort on this morning.
Who holds it
- Name
- Veera Ballala II, by conquest on the campaign board's account; the officer is not named
- Title
- lord or governor
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
Veera Ballala II, by conquest on the campaign board's account; the officer is not named
What the town holds
By conquest in Ballala II's northern war (Soratur and Lakkundi about 1191), on the campaign board's account.
Allies and rivals
Yadava claim; Lakkundi is a day away.
How things stand that morning
On the Hoysala side of the Malaprabha belt on the campaign board's account (tenure by conquest); open to a Yadava raid.
Communities
Brahmin and Jain temple families; Lingayat communities; merchants of the Ayyavole kind
Walls and castle
A small fort of the Chalukya period (not re-read)
Trade and crafts
Cotton and cotton cloth, hand-loom weaving and the grain trade of the black-soil plain; temple building
Places of note
- Trikuteshvara temple: Chalukya temple group of Gadag
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Temples firm; the political holding rests on the campaign board's note of Hoysala tenure by conquest and is not documented by officer in any source we read.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
Primary sources for Hoysala kingdom
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.
- 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
- South Indian Inscriptions (Archaeological Survey of India), Various (Chola, Pandya and other chanceries and temple scribes), edited by E. Hultzsch, V. Venkayya, H. Krishna Sastri and successors (inscriptions of the 7th to 17th centuries; the series ran from 1890). The temple inscriptions printed here are the primary record of the Tamil country in 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
- Hoysala Empire, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
- Lakkundi, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
- 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.