An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal: And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of GorkhaHamilton, Francis
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An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal: And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha
Hamilton, Francis
Nepal -- Description and travel; Nepal -- History
After this, Harihar seems to have fallen into a state of dotage, and his
three sons by Mahisi rose upon their aged parent, and put him in
confinement. In this difficulty he applied to Adanuka, the wife of
Chhatrapati, one of these unnatural sons, and promised, if she would
procure his release, that he would leave the whole of his kingdom to the
child with which she was then pregnant. This lady, who seems to have
possessed great abilities, persuaded her husband and his two brothers to
release their father, on condition that the whole kingdom should be
divided into four equal shares, one for each brother. The three sons of
Mahisi then went and attacked their brother, in order to compel him to
agree to this engagement, but they were defeated with great loss, and
retreated to Phulwari, on the Kamala river, where Adanuka was delivered
of a son, whom his grandfather immediately created king of all the
territories east from the Kosi, while he left all on the west of that
river to his son Subha. The father and uncles of the infant had probably
been too much weakened by their defeat to venture on any farther
enterprise of villainy.
I shall now follow the history of Subha, who soon after these events fell
sick, and sent for Ganggadhar, the successor of Jagamohan as priest at
Varaha Chhatra. This person informed the Raja that he was just about to
die, but, as he himself had forty years of life to spare, he would
transfer them to the prince, for whom he had a great regard. The Raja
accepted the offer, and soon after the priest went and buried himself
alive, (Samadi,) a manner of taking leave of the world which is
considered as very laudable, and to this day is occasionally practised at
Varaha Chhatra. The Raja, on the strength of this accession of life,
married a young Rajput named Amarawati, by whom he had two sons, Mahapati
and Manik.
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