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Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, Kathmandu: December 1, 1973.
Commutative Index For 1973 ************ Page 1. Palpa's Regulation With Nepal and Oudh … 1 2. The Muslim Invasion of Nepal … 7 3. An Appeal For The Abolition Of Slavery …15-20, 29-35, 41-53, 62-65 4. Chronology Of Events During King Prithvi Narayan Shah's Campaign Of Territorial Expansion … 21 5. Ban On Lani Transactions, 1806 … 28 6. The Nepalganj Market … 35 7. Ancient Settlements In Kathmandu Valley … 36 8. Currency Units, 1850 40 9. Customs And Usages Of Rajvamshis In Morang … 48 10. Imposition Of Gadimubarakh Levy In Kumaun … 49 11. Annexation Of The Malla Kingdoms … 54 12. Unsuccessful Attempts To Annex The Chaubisi Kingdoms And Reconciliation With The English … 66
Contd…….. ii. 13. Supplies For Munition Facatories … 73-78, 98-100 14. Arms And Ammunition For Garhwal Front … 77 15. Rates of Transit Duties As Chhoprak, Gorkha … 80 16. Annexation Of The Sen Kingdoms … 81 17. Political Boundaries Of Nepal … 86 18. Nepal Coins During The Medieval Period … 91 19. The Last Days Of Prithvi Narayan Shah … 101 20. Pratap Malla … 104 21. Resumption Of Guthi Land Endowments In Jajarkot … 112 22. Interviews With Baburam Acharya … 119-120, 133-137, 141-147, 165-166, 182-193, 210-215, 221-228
23. After Pratap Malla … 121 24. Permission To Salmis to Use Palanquins … 129 25. Privileges Of Gumba In Mugu … 130 26. Caste Status of Meches … 138 27. Chak-Chakui Levies … 139 […………………………………………………………………] 28. Disguised English Travellers … 148-159, 167-171 1155
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30. Law And Order In Nepalganj, 1897 … 161 31. Royal Order On Sanitation, 1840 … 163 32. Control Of Interest Rates In Western Hill Areas, 1799 … 164 33. Chronology Of Patan … 172 34. A Geographical Description Of Kathmandu Valley During The Lichchhavi Period … 177 35. Sex And Marriage Regulations … 181 37. Trade And Industry In Ancient Nepal … 194 38. History Of Patan … 196-200, 201-204 39. Miscellaneous Documents On Nepal-China War … 206-9, 236-239 40. Selected Letters Of Prithvi Narayan Shah … 216 41. Ancient Khas Culture … 229 42. Depopulation of Raikar Lands In Eastern Tarai … 239 43. Proposal For East-West Highway, 1949 … 240 *********** iv.
1155 GERMAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY (DEUTSCHE MORGENLAENDISCHE OESELLSCHAFF, EV, W, GERMANY)
Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, Kathmandu: January 1, 1973.
Year 5, No. 1, Edited By, Mahesh C. Regmi. ************* Contents Page 1. Palpa's Regulation With Nepal and Oudh … 1 2. The Muslim Invasion of Nepal … 7 3. An Appeal For The Abolition Of Slavery … 15 ************** Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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By Mahesh Raj Pant. *********** The Kingdom Of Palpa also comprised territory in the Tarai. Palpa was therefore a wealthy Kingdom. For its Tarai territory, the Kings of Palpa used to make some payments to the Nawab of Oudh.2 Some of the Chaubise Kingdoms were strong. Palpa was one of them. In his capital of Regent, Bahadur Shah planned to expande westwart. However, Palpa was a major important in this task. Relation between Gorkha and Palpa were not cordial.3 Bahadur Shah therefore made efforts to develop friendly relations with Palpa. Accordingly, he married the daughter of King Mahadatta Sen of Palpa4 on Magh 10, 1842 Vikrama5, when he was 28 years of age.6 ____________________________________________ 1. Mahesh Raj Pant, ''Palpa Rajyako Nepal Adhirajya Ra Avadhsanga Sambandha.'' (Relations Of The Kingdom of Palpa With The Kingdom of Nepal And With Oudh). Purnima, Year, No. 1, Marga 2028 (November-December 1971), PP. 1-8 2. Naya Raj Pant, Devi Prasad Bhandari, Gautam Bajra Bajracharya and Dinesh Raj Pant, Shri 5 Prithvi Narayan Shah Ko Upadesh (Teachings of King Prithvi Narayan Shah), PP. 633-635; Mahesh Raj Pant, ''Nepal Sanga Wazir Ali Kandako Sambandha'' (Nepal's Connection With The Wazir Ali Affair). Purnima, 24, Magh-Chaitra 2027 (January-March 1971), PP. 268-278 (Tranlated in Regmi Research Series, Year 3, No. 7, July 1, 1971, PP. 158-174. 3. Dinesh Raj Pant, ''Ashrit Rajya Upar Bahadur Shahle Liyeko Niti.'' (Bahadur Shah's Policy Towards Vassal States), Purnima, 6, Shrawan 2022 (July 1965), PP. 51-55. 4. Dilli Raman Regmi, Modern Nepal, PP. 109-110; Chittaranjan Nepali, Shri 5 Rana Bahadur Shah (King Rana Bahadur Shah), P. 7. (Translated in Regmi Research Series Year 2, No. 12, December 1, 1970, PP. 286-297. 5. Bahadur Shah was born in Ashadh 1814 Vikrama. Naya Raj Pant, op. cit. P. 500. 6. ''Mahadatta also entered into strictest alliance with Bahadur Shah, younger son of Prithvi Narayan, and regent of Gorkha during the minority of Rana Bahadur. In order to cement the friendshwip, Mahadatta gave his daughter in marriage to the regent ….' Francis Buchanan Hamilton, An Account Of The Kingdom of Nepal And The Territoried Annexed To This Domination By The House Of Gorkha, P. 173. Contd…….. 2. Bahadur Shah wanted to extend the frontiers of Nepal, which at that time was bounded by the Kali-Gandakt river. He sent an army to recover territory un the west during a period a of 6 moths between Jestha 10 and Marga 7, 1843 Vikrama.7 In this campaign of conquest, Nepal as assigned by King Mahadatta Sen of Palpa.8 Bahadur Shah therefore gave him the territory comparing the nowly-conquered principalitities of Gulmi, Argha and Khanchi.9 __________________________________ 7. Ramji Tiwari, ''Vo. Sam. 1813 Ma Bhayeko Kehi Mukhya Ghatana.'' (Some Important Events of The Vikrama Year 1813). Purnima, 2, Shrawan, 2021 (July 1964), PP. 61-68. 8. ''These friends soon entered into a most iniquitous combination. The Gorkha family had hitherto entirely failed in all their attempts to extend their dominations to the west, and of Palpa had continued to assist the neighboring Rajyas, it is probably, that their resistance to Gorkha might have been continued with success, but the father and son-in-law agreed, that they should make a common cause, and divide the spoil. This scheme completely succeeded, and Damodar Pande, and Khas by birth, but representative of one of the chief families in Gorkha, and a most gallant offices, was sent in command of the regent's forces.'' Hamilton, op. cit. P. 173. 9. Shakti Ballabh Aryal, Jayaramakarnatak. (Edited and translated by Dhanabajra Bajracharya and Jnyan Mani Nepal), PP. 142 and 234, Also: ''After the conquest, Damodar took for his master the lion's share, but allowed Mahadatta to retain as master Gulmi, Argha and Kahi, three of the states that had been long in alliance with his family, and which he was bound to protect, but only by the duty of alliance, but of kindred, for the Raja of Argha was his uncle.'' Hamilton, op. cit. P. 173. See also: East India Campany, Papers Respecting The Nepal War, London). L. Cok, 1842. on Page 19, this book contains an English translation of a letter written by Kaji Ambar Simha Thapa (Senior) to Governor-General Hastings of the East India Company. ''The entire world knows that the Rajas of Palpa, Pyuthan, Argha, Khanchi, and Gulmi were independent in their territoried and that they were subjugated by the Gorkha government by the grace of God. Because he accepted a vassal status, the Raja of 3.
Mahadatta Sen was succeeded by his son, Prithivi Pal Sen.12 After this, Rana Bahadur Shah occupied the hill areas of Gulmi which had been incorporated into Prithvi Pal Sen's Kingdom, and restored them to Siddhi Pratap, the their to Gulmi's throne.13 Rana Bahadur Shah decided to renounce the world after abdicating in favor of the 18 moths old Girban Yuddha Vikram Shah,14 who was born to him from Kantimati, his favorite queen. He then summoned King Prithvi Pal Sen of Palpa to apply the Rajyatilak on the forehead of Girban Yuddha Vikram Shah on the occasion of the latter's coronation.15 On Falgun 28, 1855 Vikrama, King Girban Yuddha Vikram Shah was crowned King of Nepal.19 _____________________________________________ 10. Dinesh Raj Pant, ''Daivajnyashiromani Laxmipati Pande.'' (The Astrologer Laxmipati Pande), Purnima, 10, Shrawan 2023 (July), PP. 46-53. 11. ''Mahadatta was very soon forced to eat the frit of his villainy. Damodar advanced the conquests of his nation to the west, and, having subdued Kumaun, all resistance to his force on the hills was in vain and Mahadatta was soon deprived of all the hope of protection, that be might have had from from the power of his son-in-law- regent, the young Raja of Gorkha having put his uncles to death. The friendship of the Nawab Vazir, however, saved Mahadatta, nor was any ancroachment made on Palpa, as long as the lived.'' Hamilton, op. cit. PP. 173-174. 12. Mahesh Rah Pant, op. cit. PP. 273-274. 13. ''Prithvi Pal succeeded his father, when very young, and was endowed with great personal vigour, nor was he, I believe, at all scrupulous about means; but he seems to have been rash and credulous, which dered him totally unable to resist the wiles of the people of Gorkha, who were afraid to use opne violence, on account of his connexion with the Nawab Vazir. They did not therefore molest his ancient dominations, nor any of the territory that he had acquired in the plains, all of which was tributary to the Nawab; but, immediately after his accession, Rana Bahadur, King of Gorkha and Nepall, compelled the Raja of Palpa to restore the mountains of Gulmi to Siddhi Pratap, the legal heir of that country, whose sister Rana Bahadur had married.'' Hamiltin, , op. cit. P. 174. 14. Dinesh Raj Pant, ''Daivajnya Shiromani Laxmipati pande.'' op. cit. PP. 49-50; ''Bagmati Pillar Inscription'', published in Dhanabajra Bajracharya, Triratnasaundaryagatha, PP. 293 and 296-297. 15. Mahesh Raj Pant, op. cit. P. 285. 4.
Even after the end of the coronation ceremony, Prithvi Pal Sen stayed on in Kathmandu until 1856 Vikrama.18 Queen Kantimati died in 1856 Vikrama, Rana Bahadur Shah was so grief stricken over her death that he became insane and went so far to set fire to the houses of some of the physicians who had treated Queen Kantimati, and have their hands crushed through an oil crusher. He even ordered the beheading of some of these physicians. Rana Bahadur Shah insulted all those deities who had beeen worshipped for the recovery of Kantimati.19 These acts on the part of Rana Bahadur Shah cuased considerable excitement and concern among the Bhardars and people of Nepal. The Bhardars thought that it would be impossible to carry on the administration of the counnry if the Swami Maharaj (i.e. Rana Bahadur Shah) remained in their midst. Accordingly, they took King Girban Yuddha Vikram Shah to Nuwakot. They also shifted the capital to Nuwakot. This further infuriated Rana Bahadur Shah. His anger grew further when Balabhada Shah informed him that the Bhardars were conspiring to arrest him. The Swami Maharaj then thought of attacking Nuwakot with the help of the Bhardars who were loyal to him. He declared that he resumed hi royal duties. He ordered forts to be built at Pulcho __________________________________ 17. Ibid, PP. 268-288. 18. Ibid, PP. 285. 19. Triratnasaundaryagatha, op. cit. PP. 154-162, 189-190. Contd…………. 5.
Antipating an attack on Nuwakot by Rana Bahadur Shah, the Bhardars staying in Nuwakot summoned the Chautariyas, Kajis and sardars of Palpa. As they were on their way to Nuwakot, the threat of attack by Rana Bahadur Shah vanished as he left for Varanasi. The officials from Palpa were therefore directed to go back to Palpa. The Bhardars (of Nepal) were naturally worried over the possibility of King Prithvi Pal Sen of Palpa taking sides with Rana Bahadur Shah. They felt that their position might become difficult of Prithvi Pal Sen joined hands with Rana Bahadur Shah. They, therefore, sent a message to Prithvi Pal Sen on behalf of King Girban Yuddha Vikram Shah on Jestha 9, 1857 Vikrama, telling him that the old treaty concluded with him had been confirmed and asking him to come to Nuwakot.21 _______________________________________ 20. Samshodhan Mandal, Savadhan-Patra (A Note of Warning). No. 13, PP. 8-10; Dhanbajra Bajracharya and Jnyan Mani Nepal (eds), Atihasik-Patra Sangraha (A Collection of Historical Letters), Part I, PP. 97-100.; Triratnasaundaryagatha, op. cit. 162-163, 286-290; Chittaranjan Nepali, Shri 5 Rana Bahadur Shah, PP. 43-45. (Translated in Regmi Research Series, Year 3, No. 3, March 1, 1971, PP. 68-75) and PP. 133-134; Mahesh C. Regmi (eds), Regmi Research Series, Year 3, No. 4, April 1, 1971, PP. 76-80); Ahankar Man Rajvanshi, ''Vi. Sam. 1857 Ko Euta Aitihasik Kagat.'' (An Historical Document of The Vikrama Year 1857), Purnima, 19, Kartik-Poush 2025 (October-December 1968), PP. 198-202, 205-207; Dinesh Raj Pant, Daivajnyashiromani Laxmipati Pande, op. cit. PP. 50-51. 21. From King Girban to the Chautariyas, Kajis, and Sardars of Palpa. ''Since we had urgent work here, we had asked you for to come here urgently. The work which had been started here has been accomplished. You five Chautariyas, Kajis and Sardars should now return from the place where you have reached and attend toyour household affairs. You may think that since you have already come half of the way, you should go back after offering your Salaams (to us). (But) the time for work has come and you may be infested with malaria on the way. You therefore need not come here. Go back. Remain careful about affairs in that area. Collect information about developments in Lucknow and send report to us. Jestha Badi 11, 1857'' Regmi Research Series, Year 3, No. 4, April 1, 1971, P. 80 Contd…….. 6.
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Also: From King Girban to Raja Prithvi pal Sen (of Palpa). ''Yesterday, my father had issued a copper inscription (containing the text of a treaty with Palpa). I too confirm the signature on this copper inscription. With due loyalty, come here to join the Army. Do whatever become necessary with the advice of the Bhardars. In case you do not come at this moment, we shall think that you have proved false to your duty. You have been informed in advance. Come here soon faithfully. Jestha Badi 11, 1857'' Regmi Research Series, Year 3, No. 4, April 1, 1971. P. 79. 22. Shankar Man Rajvanshi (ed), Sen Vamshavali, PP. 28-29. 23. Records of the Kausi Toshakhana Office: From Shri Shri Shri Mahanirvananda Swami (with titiles) to Chautara Surbir Sen and Kaji Ranamardan sen (the titles). Greetings. We wish both of you well. We have received you letter and noted the contents. Previously too, our mother had issued you a royal order granting you honors and favors. Today, you should extricate your King from the conspiracy of bad elements and help me to strengthen my position. In case I am able to do so, we shall bestow greater honors and favors on you. Rest assured in this respect, you will get more detailed information from the letter of Shri Shri Shri Pandit as well as personally from Padmapani Pandit. What more 9to wise people?). Camp: Banaras. Monday. Marga Sudi 15 (corresponding to Marga 19, 1857) Vikrama.'' ************ 7.
______________________________________________ 1. Baburam Acharya, ''Nepalma Bhayeko Musalmani Akraman'' (The Muslim Invasion of Nepal). Purnima, 27, Aswin 2029 (October 1972), PP. 155-161. Contd………
8. may make a copy of this article if you so wish. If I lose it, a copy will remain with you. ''With these words, Baburam Acharya handed over this article to me as well as the text of the stone inscription at Swayambhu. I gave the text of the stone inscription to Bhola Nath, Dhanabajra and Jnyamani, who first published it in the Sanskrit Sandesh in 2010 Vikrama (1953).'' Unless one reads this article, one will find it hard to believe that Muslims had ever invaded the capital of Nepal. This is natural, because none of the 8 or 10 books that have far been written about the history of Nepal refers to this invasion. Muslims had, in fact, invaded Nepal early in the 15th century according to the Vikrama era. The invasion was a very fierce one. No historian has so far come to know of this invasion, because he has not closely scrutinized ancient documents, Prof. Cecil Bendall of University Collage of Landon, who had made commendable efforts to shed light on the political history of the Newar Kingdoms of Nepal, has written an essay entitled ''Historical Introduction'' on the basis of the catalog of the Nepal Durbar Library. In preparing this essay, he used four Vamshavalis of Nepal and took Photo-copies of some of their folios. I am sure that all these Vamshavalis contain a reference to the Muslim invasion of Nepal. The invasion is also mentioned in the photo-copied obtained by him. even then, he fails to discuss the invasion in his eassay. This leads one to conclude, though reluctantly, that he was ignorant of meaning theof sentences describing the invasion. Another document referring to the Muslim invasion of Nepal is the stone inscription dated Aswin Sudi 15, 492 Nepal era installed at Simbhu in memory of the building of a Chaitya by Rajaharsha. It is these two documents which shed light on the Muslim invasion of Nepal. The meaning to the sentences contained in the fourth and fifth lines of the document No. 28 (Plate No. 8) cited by Bendall is as follows: ''In the meantime, Sultan Shamshuddin came to Nepal from the east and broke the image of Pashupati into three pieces. The whole of Nepal was ravaged. Panic spread among the entire people. On Marga Sudi 9, 470 Nepal era, a terrible suffering overlook Bhaktapur.'' This event had taken place on September 19, 1349 A.D. The meaning of the stone inscription located at Simbhu, which is in the Sanskrit language, is as follows: ''King Rajadeva, who was the custodian of two religions (Buddhism and Pauranic), was famous in Nepal. There was a sacred Stupa with the residences of holy men (Muni), on the abode of the Siddhas, situated at the top of Simbhu. It was during his reign that on Thursday, Marga Sudi 10, Nepal era, Sultan Shamsuddin arrived in Nepal with many troops from Bengal, and demolished and burnteverything. Some time later, that wise King died. Thus the stupa burntby the Yavana (Muslims) remained in the same condition.'' Directory: collections -> journals -> regmi -> pdf journals -> Hima la y an journals -> Rhino Surgery Lima Meeting French Imaginings journals -> Himalayan magazin e journals -> Sick of heights era fosters hero journals -> NRs20 irs12 U$6 issn 1012-9804 jul/aug 1989 pdf -> Kathmandu: December 1, 1981 pdf -> Kathmandu: December 1, 1979 pdf -> Kathmandu: December 1982 pdf -> Regmi research series pdf -> Kathmandu: December 1, 1978 Download 0.98 Mb. Share with your friends:
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