The high valley country where excavation has found palaces, temples and a ring of stone columns at Sinja, and where the rice called Jumli Marshi has been grown for an estimated thirteen hundred years (the page's estimate).
In 1200 it is the capital country of the Khasa kingdom. The separate Jumla kingdom is a fifteenth century creation, and the ruins' dating is loose.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known by name for 1200
- Title
- King of the Khasa
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Jumla page: Jumla was part of the Khasa kingdom in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries; the Jumla kingdom was founded about 1404 by Baliraja.
What it holds
- the Sinja valley and Jumla
- the terraced rice fields
Wealth
Rice, wool, salt.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- about 1404 (later)Baliraja founds the Jumla kingdom.Depends on: The Khasa break-up. Stopped by: Given only as a later event.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The excavated site and Wikipedia's Jumla page.
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.