Khasa king

Who he is

Name

Not known by name for 1 January 1200 (see the realm record)

Title

King (raja) of the Khasa

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

Dynasty of Nagaraja; the Dullu pillar of 1357 lists Krachalla, Ashokachalla, Jitari Malla, Akshaya Malla, Ashoka Malla, Ananda Malla, Ripu Malla, Sangrama Malla, Jitari Malla and Aditya Malla.

Confidence

low

Wikipedia's Khasa Kingdom page: Krachalla (Grags pa lde) 1207-1223 (Tucci, Gnyawali) and the Baleshwar copper plate of Saka 1145 (1223); the Tibetan list's earlier kings are undated or loosely dated.

What it holds

• Sinja and the Jumla basin
• Humla and the Limi road
• the tolls of the Karnali salt road

Allies and rivals

The Purang lords across the passes; the Katyuri heirs of Doti and Askot; the Magar chiefs.

How things stand that morning

Unknown by name. No war, truce or raid is dated for the Khasa in any source we could read.

Wealth

Grain, herds, salt and wool tolls.

Military

No army is recorded and no number is known.

Threats

• feuds with the Katyuri heirs
• hill rivals

Places of note

• Sinja valley: Capital.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: See the realm record.

On the map: Based on later evidence for the extent.

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