Arideva (Arimalla)

Who he is

Name

Arideva, called Arimalla (Ari Malla)

Title

Prince, or king, of the Nepal valley

Since

accession placed in 1200 (Wikipedia's text) or 1201 (its table); not pinned

Born

not known

Family

Father of Abhaya Malla (reigned 1216-1255). The Malla surname is first used by him; the Deva kings before him did not use it.

Confidence

low

Wikipedia (Malla dynasty, Abhaya Malla, Arideva links) and the Gopalarajavamsavali as quoted there: 'With Arimalladeva's reign a great famine and epidemic spread'. The campaign board's calendar: 'the name Malla itself only starts appearing in valley documents at exactly this moment'. His reign is placed 1200-1216 or 1201-1216; no source we could read dates his accession to a month or says where he was on 1 January 1200.

What it holds

• no land that any source assigns to him before his accession

How things stand that morning

Not known. Treat him as a figure the campaign may place at court, in a rim town or on the throne, and say which reading is in use.

Military

No army is recorded and no number is known.

Threats

• the rival kings and nobles of the Deva list

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.

1. 1200 or 1201Arideva is king, first of the Malla surname.Depends on: Reading B or C of the realm record. Stopped by: If a Deva king still reigns after 1201 there is no Malla yet.

Where the sources disagree

• Working reading kept on this map: Arideva is not king on 1 January 1200. He is a prince or a lord of the court, and his accession in 1200 or 1201 is the likely course (reading A of the Nepal realm record). Reading B seats him already; the campaign may choose it.
• Wikipedia: 1201 in the infobox and 1200 in the text for the same accession.

Evidence: One chronicle phrase and an accession year that two lines of the same page do not agree on.

On the map: No ground assigned.

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