Humla

Who holds it

Name

The high Karnali country of Humla, where the salt road from Purang comes down by the Limi valley and the Karnali gorge, and the first Nepal villages meet the Tibetan border. Indian and Nepali traders have long traded with Tibetans at Taklakot (Wikipedia), and a trail follows the Karnali to the Hilsa crossing and on toward Simikot.

Title

Lord or keeper

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

Lord in 1200

The high Karnali country of Humla, where the salt road from Purang comes down by the Limi valley and the Karnali gorge, and the first Nepal villages meet the Tibetan border. Indian and Nepali traders have long traded with Tibetans at Taklakot (Wikipedia), and a trail follows the Karnali to the Hilsa crossing and on toward Simikot.

How things stand that morning

A road under the Khasa king's tolls (inferred).

Military

No army is recorded and no number is known.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Wikipedia's Taklakot page; the road is certain, the 1200 tolls inferred.

On the map: A point.

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