Port · The Velanati Chodas of the Andhra coast · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Motupalli

A port on the Kammanadu coast.

Ganapati's safe-conduct edict to foreign merchants is carved here about 1244 (the realm record names it) and Marco Polo visits in the 1290s (from memory): both are later. In 1200 it is a landing for the country craft and for horses brought in from the Gulf and the Arabian coast.

Who holds it

Title
Lord or keeper of Motupalli
Since
not pinned
Born
not known
Confidence
low

A Velanati or Kammanadu chief; not named.

Lord in 1200

A Velanati or Kammanadu chief; not named.

Overlord

Velanati crown

How things stand that morning

A small port before the Kakatiya days.

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. About 1244The Motupalli safe-conduct edict to merchants is issued under Ganapati.Depends on: Kakatiya conquest of the coast (1209 onward). Stopped by: A Kakatiya failure in the delta.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: From memory and the OMNIA board's lead; no source read this session gives the position on 1 January 1200 for this place.

Primary sources for Velanati Chodas (Velanadu)

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
  • 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

  1. General knowledge of the medieval Deccan (Bhandarkar, Altekar, Sastri, B. R. Gopal, Suryanath Kamath): from memory, not re-read
  2. 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.