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Malla rulers of the whole Kathmandu valley 1.    Ari Deva  c.1201 - 1216 2.    Abhaya Malla  c.1216 - 1235 3.    Ranasura  c.1216 4.    Jayadeva Malla  c.1235 - 1258 5.    Jayabhima Deva  c.1258 - 1271 6.    Jayasimha Malla  c.1271 - 1274 7.    Ananta Malla  c.1274 - 1310 8.    Jayananada Deva  c.1310 - 1320 9.    Jayari Malla  c.1320 - 1344 10.                       Jayarudra Malla  c.1320 - 1326 11.                       Jayaraja Deva  c.1347 - 1361 12.                       Jayarjuna Malla  c.1361 ...

Located in Bidur municipality in Kathmandu’s neighboring hill district of Nuwakot is where the Saat Talle Durbar or “The Seven Storied Palace” is at.  This old part palace part fortress was built by Prithivi Narayan Shah during his efforts to conquer Kathmandu.  At the time, Nepal was a loose collection of small kingdoms.   The ambitious Shah king, who was the militaristic king of Gorkha at the time, launched a campaign to extend his territory.  The primary objective of his campaign early on, was to conquer the Newari city states in the Kathmandu valley which would provide him with enough resources to conquer the rest of Nepal.  His strategy was to annex all of the territory surrounding the valley so that he could control Kathmandu’s imports and exports.  To oversee this operation, Shah shifted his capital from Gorkha to Nuwakot which had seen three Malla kings before he captured the place.  He commissioned artisans and masons from Patan to build the...

The Malla dynasty emerged in the last part of the dark ages. After the fall of the Lichchhavis came the Malla period during which the foundation of the city of Kantipur (later Kathmandu) was laid. The early Malla rule started with   Ari Malla   in the early 13th century. When Ari Dev was wresling (called Malla Yudha in Nepali), he was informed that his first son was born, so he decided to put "Malla" at the end of their names. Over the next two centuries grew into a large empire before disintegrating into small principalities, which later became known as the Baisi (i.e. the 22 principalities). This was more or less coincidental with the emergence of the Chaubisi (i.e. 24 principalities). The history of these principalities remains shrouded up until the time when they joined other kingdoms, both large and small, to form the unified Kingdom of Nepal. Jayasthiti Malla , with whom commences the later Malla period in the Kathmandu Valley, reigned towards the end of the 14th c...

Compulsory Science Set 1 Time: 2:15 hours                                                                    Full Marks: 75                                                                                         ...