Somanathapura ground

Who holds it

Name

Veera Ballala II (through his officers; not named)

Title

lord or governor

Confidence

low

Lord in 1200

Veera Ballala II (through his officers; not named)

How things stand that morning

Farmland of the royal demesne; no settlement of note.

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. 1250s to 1268 (later)The town and the Kesava temple are founded by the general Somanatha under Narasimha III (board; 1268 in Wikipedia's temple table).Depends on: Hoysala rule of the Kaveri plain lasting to the thirteenth century and a patron at court. Stopped by: The loss of Gangavadi or the fall of the dynasty before then.

Places of note

• Somanathapura ground: farmland on the left bank of the Kaveri

Where the sources disagree

• Common accounts show Somanathapura as a Hoysala monument. Wikipedia's temple table dates the Kesava temple to 1268 under Narasimha III, and the campaign board says the town and temple are founded by a general, Somanatha, in the thirteenth century; neither is a feature of 1 January 1200.

Evidence: The dating of the later temple is from the Hoysala architecture table of Wikipedia; the farmland itself is the campaign board's account.

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

Primary sources for Hoysala kingdom

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.

• Epigraphia Carnatica: inscriptions of the Mysore country, Various (Hoysala chancery and temple scribes), edited by B. Lewis Rice and R. Narasimhachar (inscriptions of the 4th to 19th centuries; the series ran from 1886 to 1905, revised from 1972). The Hoysala kingdom of Veera Ballala II (reigning 1173 to 1220) is documented almost wholly by the inscriptions in this series, arranged by district and taluk with full English translations. Read online
• Inscriptions of the Silaharas, Various (Silahara chanceries), edited by V. V. Mirashi (inscriptions of the 9th to 13th centuries; edited 1977). Collects the records of the three Silahara houses: North Konkan (Thana), South Konkan, and Kolhapur.
• Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions relating to the Yadava Kings of Devagiri, Various (Yadava chancery), edited by J. F. Fleet (inscriptions of the 12th and 13th centuries; edited 1876). The first collected edition of the Yadava (Seuna) records, with texts and translations, from the Indian Antiquary. 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