﻿322 AN ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF NEPAL. 



• At the commencement of the year 1 769, the king 

 of Gore ha acquired possession of the city of B hatgan, 

 bv the same expedients to which he owed his former 

 successes ; and on his entrance with his troops into the 

 citv, Gaitiprejas, seeing he had no resource left to save 

 himself, ran courageously with his attendants towards 

 the king of Gore ha, and, at a s^all distance from his 

 palanquin, received a wound in his foot, which a few 

 days afterwards occasioned his d.ath. T he king of 

 JLelitPattan was confined in irons till his death; and the 

 king of B' hatgan, being very far advanced m fears, 

 obtained leave to go and die at Benares. A short time 

 afterwards the mother or Gamprejas also procured the 

 same indulgence, having from old age already lost her 

 eye sight ; but before her departure they took from her 

 a necklace of jewels 'as she herself told me) when she 

 arrived at Patna with the widow of her grandson : 

 and I could not refrain from tears, when I beheld the 

 misery and disgrace of this blind and unhappy queen. 



The king of Gore'ha, having thus in the space of four 

 years effected the conquest of Nepal, made himself 

 master also of the country cf the Ciratas to the east of 

 it, and of other kingdoms, as far as the borders of Cock 

 Bihar. After his decease, his eldest son Pratap Sink 

 held the government of the whole country : but scarcely 

 two years after, on Pratap <§wA's death, a younger 

 brother, by name Bahadur Sah, who resided then at 

 Bettia with his uncle Dehnerdcn Sah, was invited to 

 accept of the government : and the beginning of his 

 government was marked with many massacres. The 

 royal family is in the greatest confusion, because the 

 queen lays claim to the government in the name of her 

 .son, whom she had by Pratap Sink ; and perhaps the 

 oath violated by PriPfavinarayan will in the progress 

 of time have its effect. Such have been the successors 

 of the kingdoms of Nepal, of which Prit'hw'maray&ri 

 had thus acquired possession. 



