A hill-foot town on the Tawi with a fort, the seat of the Jammu rajas; its allegiance is the open question of the brief.
Lahore is a short march south-west.
Who holds it
- Title
- Raja
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
The raja of Jammu; not known.
How things stand that morning
The raja of Jammu; not known.
Where the sources disagree
On the map: A point.
Primary sources for Hill rajas
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 River of Kings, with Jonaraja's continuation, Kalhana; continued by Jonaraja (Kalhana 1148 to 1150; Jonaraja about 1459). Kalhana's chronicle stops in 1149, so for 1200 the witness is Jonaraja, writing three centuries later and very briefly. Read online
- The Gopala Raja Chronicle, and the Nepalese colophons, Anonymous (chronicle); various scribes (colophons) (the chronicle about 1389; the colophons are contemporary notes of the 11th to 14th centuries). The Nepal valley in 1200 is known chiefly from dated manuscript colophons and short inscriptions, which name the reigning king with the Nepal era year, and from the Gopalarajavamsavali, a chronicle written about 1389 that lists the kings with regnal years.
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia, Muhammad of Ghor (Lahore taken 1186; Khokhars under the rulers of Jammu in 1181; no hill state named)
- Hutchison and Vogel, History of the Panjab Hill States, vol. 1 (Lahore 1933), archive.org full text, searched for Baijnath, Hridaya-Chandra and Muhammad Ghori
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.