Valley, district or people · The Khasa kingdom of the Karnali · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Dullu and Dailekh

The hill country south of Jumla where Prithvi Malla's stone pillar of Saka 1279 (1357) lists the Khasa kings and the earliest Devanagari writing of the thirteenth century is found.

In 1200 its lords are not known and their tie to the king of Sinja is a claim.

Who holds it

Name
Not known by name
Title
Khasa or Katyuri-heir chiefs
Since
not pinned
Born
not known
Family
not known
Confidence
low

See the Dullu town record.

What it holds

  • Dullu and the Dailekh country
  • the Kalikot hills

Wealth

Rice and hill grain.

Military

No army is recorded and no number is known.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Wikipedia on the pillar.

On the map: Approximate.

Primary sources for Khasa kingdom

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.
  • 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
  • Indo-Tibetica (the temples and inscriptions of western Tibet), with the Royal Genealogy of Ngari, Giuseppe Tucci (editor and translator); the genealogy by Ngawang Drakpa (Ngag dbang grags pa) (the inscriptions and temple records of the 11th to 15th centuries; Indo-Tibetica published 1932 to 1941; the genealogy about 1497). Guge, Purang and Ladakh in 1200 are among the least documented kingdoms in the atlas. Read online

Sources and studies

  1. Wikipedia (English): Khasa Kingdom
  2. Wikipedia (English): Sinja Valley

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.