Harihara

Who holds it

Name

Veera Ballala II (the Nolambavadi governor)

Title

lord or governor

Confidence

low

Lord in 1200

Veera Ballala II (the Nolambavadi governor)

How things stand that morning

A river crossing.

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. 1223 or 1224 (later)The Harihareshwara temple is built by a Hoysala officer (board) under Vira Narasimha II (Wikipedia's temple table).Depends on: Ballala II's death in 1220 and a Hoysala hold on the crossing. Stopped by: A Yadava seizure of the crossing.

Places of note

• Harihara: ford of the Tungabhadra

Where the sources disagree

• Wikipedia's temple table dates the Harihareshwara temple to 1224 under Vira Narasimha II; the campaign board says 1223 and a Hoysala officer as builder. It does not exist on 1 January 1200.

Evidence: Evidence is thin: the place and its setting are known; its officers and size in 1200 are not in the pages 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