The north-western hill country and the Trisuli gorge, guarded by the hilltop watch post of Nuwakot, 'nine forts' by its name (the campaign board).
Everything moving to Kyirong and Tibet by the Trisuli road passes underneath it, which makes it the valley's most valuable possession outside the valley. The buildings visitors see are eighteenth century.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known by name for 1200
- Title
- Governor or lord of Nuwakot
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Nothing names an officer of Nuwakot for 1200.
What it holds
- Nuwakot hill and the watch posts round it
- the Trisuli road to the Rasuwa watershed
How things stand that morning
No event is dated.
Wealth
Tolls on the Kyirong road.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Tribute
Tolls to the king, if held; unrecorded.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board; geography.
"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.