Rajahmundry

Who holds it

Title

The Velanati king's governor

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Confidence

low

The Velanati Chodas hold Vengi (the Godavari delta country); the sources we read name no governor of the city.

Lord in 1200

Prithviswara's governor, if the Velanati hold; not named.

Overlord

The Velanati king, under a distant Chola crown; Ganga and Kakatiya claims

How things stand that morning

A great city of the previous century, held by a vassal of a distant crown with three claimants waiting.

Communities

Telugu Brahmins and temple trustees; Jain remains of the Chalukya age; no merchant community named in anything we read.

Walls and castle

Eleventh-century palace and fort remains (the article, undated detail).

Trade and crafts

The head of the delta: river traffic to the coast, rice, cloth, teak floated down from the Godavari gorge (general; the campaign board has 'the-godavari-gorge').

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board puts Rajamahendravaram under the Kakatiyas of Warangal. No Kakatiya army is in the delta on 1 January 1200 (Ganapatideva and Velanati articles read); it is drawn Velanati with Kakatiya and Ganga claims.

Evidence: The Rajahmundry article (read) is thin: it gives the founder and Rajaraja Narendra only. The 1200 position follows the Velanati, Eastern Ganga and Kakatiya articles read this session.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

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