The hill country east of the Banepa basin, down to the Sun Kosi and up the Bhote Kosi to Kodari: the eastern salt road, the Bhimeswar shrine of Dolakha that marks the eastern edge in the pilgrim reckoning, and the Tamakoshi, the 'copper water' from whose small diggings the Patan smiths draw their metal.
Control of the copper means control of the tracks and the villages, not of a shaft (the campaign board). Dolakha later strikes its own coin; in 1200 its tenure is inferred, not documented.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known by name for 1200
- Title
- Thakkura of Dolakha
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
See the thakkura houses record. The Bhonta and Tripura houses are attested only from about 1249.
What it holds
- Dolakha and the Bhimeswar shrine
- the Kuti road from Banepa to Kodari
- the Tamakoshi copper tracks
Wealth
Copper, tolls on the eastern road.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Tribute
Copper and tolls to the king at Bhaktapur, if the valley's claim holds; unrecorded.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board and the chronicle names; nothing dated.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Approximate.
Primary sources for Nepal valley
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.
- The Gopala Raja Chronicle, and the Nepalese colophons, Anonymous (chronicle); various scribes (colophons) (the chronicle about 1389; the colophons are contemporary notes of the 11th to 14th centuries). The Nepal valley in 1200 is known chiefly from dated manuscript colophons and short inscriptions, which name the reigning king with the Nepal era year, and from the Gopalarajavamsavali, a chronicle written about 1389 that lists the kings with regnal years.
- History of Buddhism in India and Tibet, Buton Rinchen Drub (Bu ston Rin chen grub) (1322). Optional background. Read online
- The Blue Annals, Go Lotsawa Zhonnu Pal ('Gos lo tsa ba gZhon nu dpal) (1476 to 1478). The fullest Tibetan account of who mattered around 1200, written three centuries later from earlier biographies and lineage records, many now lost. Read online
- The Sakya genealogy, and the works of the Sakya hierarch of 1200, Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen (Grags pa rgyal mtshan) and Sakya Pandita; the genealogy by Ngawang Kunga Sonam (the hierarchs' writings about 1170 to 1250; the genealogy 1629). Sakya in 1200 was ruled by Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen, the third of the five founders, with his nephew Kunga Gyaltsen (later Sakya Pandita, born 1182) under his teaching. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.