Chandragiri road

Who holds it

Name

The way in from India: up from the tarai by the Rapti and Bhimphedi ravines, over the Chitlang saddle and down the Chandragiri slope into the valley at Thankot. Loads come over it on men's backs, not on carts. Everything the valley imports from the plain climbs this, and an army that tries it arrives strung out and in single file after the fever belt.

Title

Lord or keeper

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

Lord in 1200

The way in from India: up from the tarai by the Rapti and Bhimphedi ravines, over the Chitlang saddle and down the Chandragiri slope into the valley at Thankot. Loads come over it on men's backs, not on carts. Everything the valley imports from the plain climbs this, and an army that tries it arrives strung out and in single file after the fever belt.

How things stand that morning

Open; the Karnata army of 1245 will come by roads of this kind.

Military

No army is recorded and no number is known.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The campaign board entry note; 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