Frontier town · Contested ground · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Mulbagal

A market town on the road east from Kolar down the ghat edge into the Tamil country; the border of the Hoysala and Chola claims.

Who holds it

Name
Hoysala by title; Chola claim on the border
Title
lord or governor
Confidence
low

Lord in 1200

Hoysala by title; Chola claim on the border

How things stand that morning

A quiet border town while the peace of 1187-88 holds.

Places of note

  • Mulbagal: market town at the eastern gate of the plateau

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Evidence is thin: the place and its main monuments are known; its officers and its size in 1200 are not in the pages we read.

Sources and studies

  1. Kolar district, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
  2. 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.