The northern end of the Karnali basin, where the salt road from Taklakot comes down by Hilsa and the Limi valley, eleven small villages of Tibetan origin (the page) on a Buddhist road.
Locals traded at the old mart of Taklakot, historically and today (the page). Whether the Khasa king or the lords of Purang held it in 1200 is not recorded; the Purang lords' Ya-rtse line is tied to the Khasa kings in the Tibetan lists.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known by name
- Title
- The Khasa king's officers or the lords of Purang; not pinned
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Humla page has no history before the present; it records Buddhist communities in the Limi valley and a trail to Hilsa.
What it holds
- Simikot and the Karnali gorge
- the Limi valley villages
- the Hilsa crossing
Wealth
Salt, wool, grain; the pilgrim and caravan toll.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Customs
Buddhist villages of Tibetan origin in the north; Hindu farmers in the south.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Wikipedia's Humla and Taklakot pages.
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
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.