903.] C. Bendall —History of Nepal and surrounding Kingdoms. 17 r 
Banepa, that the kings of Bbatgaon,, Jagatprakasa and his success of 
Jitamitra (1643-1689 ! ) were acknowledged there. 
II.—WESTERN NEPAL. 
The town of Noakofc or Nayakot (which I visited in my recent 
tour) seems to have been a kind of frontier between the valley of 
Nepal or Nepal proper and the Western districts. Wright’s History (pp* 
223-5) mentions the seizure of the place by a Gorkha sovereign pre¬ 
vious to the general Gorkha Conquest. 
The MS. in the W right-collection numbered 1108 seems to have 
been written here. For is doubtless (though the identification 
escaped me when I wrote my Cambridge Catalogue, p. 30) a Sanskri- 
tized form of the town’s name. The date of the king (Ratnajyofcih) 
has been verified by Dr. Kiel horn and corresponds to January llth^ 
1392. 
During the following century no chronological data .are forthcoming. 
I may note in passing that an educated Nepalese told me that inscribed 
stones, which he thought resembled those published by PanditBhagvanlal 
and myself, existed in the valleys of Western.Nepal. . ’ .. j .« 
Dr. Wright published (History,-Chapter XII) an account of the 
reigning (Gorkha) dynasty from Dravya Sail (A. D. 1559) to the pre¬ 
sent time. 
It is interesting to find in the present collection (pp. 242-4) a 
MS. giving confirmation of this record. It was composed by Rajen- 
dravikrama Sah, who reigned 1816-1847. It might be worthwhile 
to publish extracts from this MS., when further confirmatory material 
(from old MSS. or inscriptions) comes to light. Meanwhile, it is worth 
noting that Wright’s date, 1559, founded on a Yikrama-date, is curiously 
corroborated by a chronogram (vidliu-vasu-nigama-glau 2 ), which gives 
the corresponding S'aka year (1481). At p. 213 of the Catalogue we 
find a MS. written during the reign of Varavira Salil, in 1614, at 
Jatapattana. This looks like S'aka 1614 (A.D. 1692), when Vlrabhadra 
Sahi was alive, though, according to Wright, he was only yuvardj and 
never maharaja . s 
1 For the latter date see Cat. p. 150. N.S, 810, Pausa. One of the new in¬ 
scriptions is dated some six years later: 816, Jyestha. 
* Read thus p. 242 1. 25. I was much troubled by the reading ^ gnan. But 
on referring to the MS., through the kind intermediary of the Resident, I found that 
the tracing read glau. This rare word has hitherto been found, in lexicons only, in 
the sense of ‘ moon * or ‘ earth ’ (i= 1). 
8 Bhagvanlal’s Inscr. No. 18 fixes the date of another Gorkha sovereign in 
recording the defeat of Dambarasah by Pratapamafia, N.S. 769 (A.D. 1649). 
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