The hill country south-east of Sinja, between the Karnali and the Bheri, is Khasa ground by language and later by rule.
In 1200 its chiefs, the keepers of forts and the heads of villages, owe a loose duty to the king of Sinja or to the Katyuri heirs on the Kali. Dullu is later the place where the Khasa Malla kings set up inscriptions; in 1200 it is a claim, drawn as such.
Who he is
- Name
- Not known by name
- Title
- Chiefs (not known by name) of the hills between the Karnali and the Bheri
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- Khasa hill families; the later Khasa kings treat Dullu as a second capital, and Prithvi Malla's pillar of 1357 stands there.
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Sinja Valley page: 'earliest Devanagari examples from the 13th century were found on the cliffs and at Dullu'. No lord of Dullu is named for 1200.
What it holds
- Dullu and the Dailekh hills
- the Kalikot villages
Allies and rivals
The king of Sinja; the Katyuri heirs of Doti; the Magar chiefs to the east.
How things stand that morning
Undefined; the Khasa kingdom's reach to Dullu is not documented before the thirteenth century.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Places of note
- Dullu: Site of Prithvi Malla's pillar of 1357.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Only the thirteenth century inscriptions and the later pillar.
On the map: A claim, not a holding.
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.