The Ikshvaku capital Vijayapuri of the third and fourth centuries with its Buddhist monasteries, long ruined and half buried in the Nallamala hills above the Krishna; it was drowned by the Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir in the 1960s (from memory).
In 1200 it is a hill in forest with ruins and no town.
Who holds it
- Title
- Lord or keeper of Nagarjunakonda
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
None; a ruined site.
Lord in 1200
None; a ruined site.
Overlord
Velanati crown
How things stand that morning
Ruins.
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
- General knowledge of the medieval Deccan (Bhandarkar, Altekar, Sastri, B. R. Gopal, Suryanath Kamath): from memory, not re-read
- 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.