The high Karnali basin, the country of the Khasa kingdom, whose first kings Wikipedia puts in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries and whose break-up into the Baise Rajya, twenty-two principalities of the Karnali and Bheri region, is dated after the thirteenth century.
The Khas language, the ancestor of Nepali, took shape here. The kingdom's reach on 1 January 1200 is not recoverable; the polygon is the Karnali basin as it later stood.
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
See the Khasa realm and king records.
What it holds
- Sinja and the Jumla valley
- Dullu and Dailekh
- Humla and the Limi road
- the Karnali gorges
Wealth
High-valley rice at Jumla, wool, salt from the north, the Taklakot road.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Customs
Masto spirit rites in stone shrines; a Hindu and Buddhist court.
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.
- 1301 or later (after the thirteenth century; later)The kingdom breaks into the Baise Rajya.Depends on: The decline of the Khasa Malla line. Stopped by: Given only as a later event.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Wikipedia's Khasa and Jumla pages.
On the map: The reach in 1200 is not known.
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.