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	Prithvi Narayan Shah - tScholars.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723 - 1775 A.D.; Nepali: पृथ्वी नारायण शाह), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559 - 1570 A.D.), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded his father King Nara Bhupal Shah to the throne of Gorkha in 1743 A.D. Sagacious and far-sighted, King Prithvi Narayan Shah was quite aware of the political situation of the valley kingdoms as well as of the Baisi and Chaubisi principalities.
		Thus King Prithvi Narayan Shah unified the Kathmandu Valley and Kathmandu became the capital of the modern Nepal by 1769 A.D. Once the foundation of the Kingdom of Nepal was thus laid, King Prithvi Narayan Shah, turned his attention towards the east.
	www.tscholars.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Prithvi_Narayan_Shah (756 words)

	History of Nepal
		Prithvi Narayan Shah (c 1769-1775), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559-1570), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.
		King Prithvi Narayan Shah was quite aware of the political situation of the Valley kingdoms as well as of the Barsi and Chaubisi principalities.
		Thus the Kathmandu Valley was conquered by King Prithvi Narayan Shah and Kathmandu became the capital of the modern Nepal by 1769.
	www.thamel.com /htms/history.htm (1130 words)

	Nepal - THE MAKING OF MODERN NEPAL
		This son, Prithvi Narayan Shah (reigned 1743-75), made full use of his position to achieve supreme power and was one of the great figures in Nepalese history.
		Jayaprakasa fled to Bhadgaon with Tej Narasimha and Prithvi Narayan Shah was crowned king of Kathmandu.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah quickly made a movement toward the Chaubisi states in the west, but after encountering resistance in Tanahu, the Gorkha armies drove east into the Kirata country, overrunning all of eastern Nepal by 1773.
	countrystudies.us /nepal/9.htm (965 words)

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		1799 Prithvi Narayan Shah ascended the throne of (1742) Gorkha.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah then sent a Brahman messenger to deliver a message Jaya Prakash Malla asking him to surrender, rather than risk loss of men material by fighting against the Gorkhalis, since the English had already had withdrawn to their country.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah sent a massage declaring that he would not interfare in the internal affairs of Jajarkot and calling on Gajendra Shah to accept Gorkha suzerainty and pay Rs 701 as Dadimubarak whenever a new King was crowned in Kathmandu.
	www.thdl.org /texts/reprints/regmi/regmi_05.doc (18468 words)

	The Unification Of Nepal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SHAH KINGS OF According to Bhasa Bansabali, the Shah kings of Gorkha were descended from a noble family of Chitor (India) who belonged to the Chandrabansi Rajput dynasty.
		Narabhupla Shah's sorrow could not be pacified and he died with the shock of his defeat, in 1742 A.D. Then Prithvi Narayan Shah, the future hero and the conqueror of the Kathmandu valley ascended the throne of Gorkha.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah became so furious from his former defeats in the bands of Kirtipuris that he ordered that the noses of the people of Kirtipur over the age of 12 be cut off and the city to be named as `Naskatipur'.
	www.infoclub.com.np /nepal/history/history_unification.htm (6735 words)

	Modern History of Nepal
		History of modern Nepal is said to have begun in 1768 A.D. (1825 B.S.) with Gorkha rulers their successful unification of petty states, the year when Prithvi Narayan Shah, the great King of Nepal, conquered the kingdom of Kathmandu and transferred his capital from Gorkha to Kathmandu.
		His son, Bahadur Shah annexed the rest small kingdoms in the east, south, and west during the r rule of Rana Bahadur Shah.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah was the only king of Nepal who is given the title, " the great".
	www.geocities.com /ninfonp/modernhist.html (343 words)

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		Prithvi Naraytan Shah was the king of this principality who founded the present Nepal by uniting albeit by military means to other principality.
		Prithvi Pati Shah was the successor of Rudra Shah.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah and his men marched to the place where the jatra was being celebrated in full swing.
	www.discovernepal.com.np /gorkha.php (3656 words)

	Prithvi Narayan Shah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prithvi Narayan Shah, King of Nepal (1723 - 1775 A.D.; Nepali: पृथ्वी नारायण शाह), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559 - 1570 A.D.), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.
		King Prithvi Narayan Shah died in January, 1775 A.D. at the age of 52.
		The invaluable advice of King Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great, popularly known as [[[Divyopadesh]]http://samudaya.org/articles/archives/2005/07/dibyopadesh.php] or divine counsel, which he passed on to his closest aides before he died in 1775 in Nuwakot, speaks amply for of his farsightedness and sagacity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prithvi_Narayan_Shah (936 words)

	The Great Unifier - Nepali Times
		Prithvi Narayan Shah is more than the founder of Nepal.
		Surrounded by myths and legends, Prithvi Narayan Shah is one of those historical figures people find it hard to actually relate to.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah’s birthday, 27 Poush (11 January this year) is commemorated as Nepal’s “National Unity Day”.
	www.nepalitimes.com /issue/76/Nation/6592 (182 words)

	Prithvi Narayan Shah - Wikipedia
		Etter flere forsøk (angrep i 1757 og i 1764, da hans yngste bror Shurpratap Shah falt) tok han Kirtipur, en liten by i åsene 5 km sørvest for Kathmandu.
		Prithvi hadde lovet byen pen behandling hvis den overga seg.
		Prithvi Shahs og Gorkhas ofte brutale erobringer betydde undertrykkelse av andre nasjonaliteter, språk og religioner i Nepal.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prithvi_Narayan_Shah (1150 words)

	Gurkha Knife : Symbol Of Gurkhas
		King Prithvi Narayan Shah was the king of Gorkha.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah's descendant is King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, who reigns in the kingdom of Nepal Today.
		Late king Prithivi Narayan Shah was born in 1723 AD in Gorkha, mid-west district of Nepal.
	www.khukuriknife.com /gurkhas.htm (1146 words)

	The Shahs
		Prithvi Narayan Shah (1769-1775 A.D.), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559-1570 A.D.), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.
		far-sighted, King Prithvi Narayan Shah was quite aware of the political situation of the valley kingdoms as well as of the Baisi and Chaubisi principalities.
		King Prithvi Narayan Shah was indeed " The Founder of the Nation," who had a vision not only for individual tryst with destiny but also for the national goal of peace and prosperity.
	www.infonepal.com.np /shahs.htm (651 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Prithvi Narayan Shah (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Legend has it that Prithvi Narayan Shah was inspired by an old lady to use this strategic approach to conquering his targets.
		The invaluable advice of King Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great, popularly known as 'Divya Upadesh' or divine counsel, which he passed on to his closest aides before he died in 1775 in Nuwakot, speaks amply for of his farsightedness and sagacity.
		Gorakhnath revealed that had young Prithvi eaten the yogurt, he would have conqured the world, but since he had not, he would be able to conquer all the lands he has stepped on--the blessing which strangely came true to some extent, since almost all the lands Shah went to were conquered in his lifetime.
	www.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Prithvi_Narayan_Shah (891 words)

	About Gorkha - Gorkha Treks: Offers Trekking, Tours, Adventure, Rafting to Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Probably Nepal’s most famous village, it is the ancestral home of the Shaha dynasty, the birth place of King Prithvi Narayan Shah after whom the Prithvi Highway is named, and was at the heart of the recruiting area for Gurkha regiments.
		The modern village is a steepish walk to the south of Prithvi Narayan’s Gorkha Durbar headquarters and, considering it’s role in the history of Nepal, surprisingly small.
		of Nepal, Prithvi Narayan Shah was born in 1723 and, the age of 20, succeeded to the Gorkha throne established in 1560 by Dravya Shah.
	www.visitnepal.com /gorkhatreks/aboutgorkha.htm (247 words)

	Expansion of Nepal
		Bahadur Shah was greatly shocked at the treatment of the king towards him who always had fought for the good of the king and the country.
		It is believed that the coin of Rana Bahadur Shah relieves the labour pain of a lady and the baby is born if the mother is given the water in which the coin of Rana Bahadur's reign is dropped.
		But Prithvi Narayan Shah did not allow them to stay in Nepal and a troop of British soldiers under the command of General Kinloch was badly defeated by the army of Prithvi Narayan Shah at Sindhuli in 1765 A.D. So, the British were aware of the strength and courage of the Gorkha soldiers.
	www.infoclub.com.np /nepal/history/history_expansion.htm (6471 words)

	Features News The Rising Nepal (Daily)
		Prithvi Narayan Shah extended his boundaries from the Marsyangdi to the Kankai.
		Prithvi Narayan Shah, though he was fully aware of the Bible and bullet policy of the English overlooked the activities of the Capuchin Fathers because he was busily engaged in his military campaigns in the valley.
		In the meantime, Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered the three states of the valley one by one in 1769 A.D. He was fully aware of the strength of the English in India.
	www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishdaily/trn/2001/jan/jan11/features.htm (2705 words)

	Nepal - The Struggle for Power
		The premature death of Pratap Singh Shah (reigned 1775-77), the eldest son of Prithvi Narayan Shah, left a huge power vacuum that remained unfilled for decades, seriously debilitating the emerging Nepalese state.
		The acting regent until 1785 was Queen Rajendralakshmi, followed by Bahadur Shah (reigned 1785-94), the second son of Prithvi Narayan Shah.
		The death of Girvan Yuddha Shah in 1816 and the accession of his infant son meant the retention of the regency.
	countrystudies.us /nepal/10.htm (670 words)

	Kathmandu, Nepal, Inside kathmandu
		It is a mark of pride today that King Prithvi Narayan Shah saw fit to build his Kathmandu Palace in the Nepalese style, thus not only showing his appreciation for the merits of the traditional architecture of the Valley but also establishing a firm precedent that was to continue during the coming centuries.
		Its special importance stems from the fact that King Prithvi Narayan Shah had a great devotion to Nuwakot Bhagavati and is said to have brought her image with him when he unified Nepal under one flag.
		Since Prithvi Narayan had with him the image of Bhagavati, it was quite normal for him to place it in this empty sanctuary close to the Palace.
	www.nepalvisitors.com /kathmandu.htm (3263 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Nepal's living link with history
		Nepalis are proud of their history, particularly the combination of statesmanship and military prowess used by King Prithvi of Gorkha to weld dozens of squabbling hill states and prosperous Kathmandu valley cities into the Kingdom of Nepal.
		An ancestor of Prithvi Narayan Shah, Ram Shah was one of the country's earliest reformers of land revenues and the inventor of a penal code.
		A legend about Prithvi Narayan Shah says that at the age of six, he refused to eat yogurt spat into his hand by the holy man, Gorakhnath.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/1388481.stm (644 words)

	History of Nepal
		Modern Nepal was created in the latter half of the 18th century when Prithvi Narayan Shah, the ruler of the small principality of Gorkha, formed a unified country from a number of independent hill states.
		In 1950, King Tribhuvan, a direct descendant of Prithvi Narayan Shah, fled his "palace prison" to newly independent India, touching off an armed revolt against the Rana administration.
		This allowed the return of the Shah family to power and, eventually, the appointment of a non-Rana as prime minister.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/nepal.html (1064 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		Although King Prithvi Narayan Shah set the guidelines for the future of Nepal, his successors could not give shape to what he had envisioned after he unified several princely states that existed on the lap of the Himalayas.Existence of Nepal as a sovereign country dates back to the Magadha dynasty.
		King Prithvi Narayan Shah had envisioned that Nepal should be a country of diverse ethnic and religious communities.
		Had the Shah successors respected the principles of King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the Nepali people would not have been fighting for their rights.
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=28726 (520 words)

	Nepal Travel & Tourism Information Guide: trekking, hotels, rafting, biking, jungle safari, adventure, accommodations, ...
		The deaths of King Birendra and his heir-apparent, Dipendra, in the aftermath of June 1 'accidental' shoot-out mark the end of an era of direct succession of kingship established by the founder of modern Nepal, King Prithvi Narayan Shah in the beginning of the 18th century.
		The founder of the Shah dynasty, King Ram Shah, established rule of law and social justice in the hills of Nepal at a time when many parts of the world were in a Hobbesian state of nature.
		King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the founder of present-day Nepal, rediscovered the roots of native virtues and introduced a vision of progress, patriotism and participation of diverse people in the social, economic and political construction of the nation-state through the institutionalisation of monarchical institutions, system of rights for the people and their places in society.
	www.adventureinnepal.com /monarchy.html (1348 words)

	Kathmandu Durbar Square: World Heritage Sites: Traditional Nepalese Arts: Spiny Babbler Museum
		When Prithvi Narayan Shah invaded the Kathmandu Valley in 1769, he also favored the Kathmandu Durbar Square for his palace.
		The Narayan idol within the temple was stolen so Prithvi Narayan Shah replaced it with an image of Bhagavati, completely transforming the name of the temple.
		Bahadur Shah, the second son of Prithivi Narayan Shah, ruled as a regent for his young nephew Rana Bahadur Shah for a close to a decade from 1785 to 1794 and built a temple of Shiva Parvati in the square.
	www.spinybabbler.org /art_complex/kathmandu.htm (2472 words)

	Nuwakot Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		It was from this command centre that Prithvi Narayan Shah, the unifier of Nepal, directed his dogged campaign on the Kathmandu Valley from 1744 to 1769, and gazing out through these windows you can gain some insight into the mind of this obsessive but brilliant military tactician.
		In his determination to conquer the valley, Prithvi Narayan had three other towers built in the name of the three valley capitals, perhaps hoping to bring about their downfall by a kind of voodoo; the Kathmandu and Patan towers share the main compound, while the crumbling Bhaktapur tower stands on a rise just outside.
		In 1792, attempting to extend Nepal's territory into Tibet, Prithvi Narayan's successor pushed his luck too far and was driven all the way back to Betrawati, the next village north of Trisuli.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/Nepal/Nuwakot (503 words)

	Nepal Gurkhas kukris and Khukuri House are inseparable- USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The appellation Gurkha- by now the other name for valor, courage, steadfastness, loyalty, neutrality and impartiality.The word "Gurkha" originated from King Prithvi Narayan Shah's "Gorkhali" army (from Gorkha), with whose help he succeeded in uniting Nepal into one kingdom around 1768-69 AD.
		Late king Prithivi Narayan Shah was born in 1723 AD in Gorkha, mid-west district of Nepal.He was throne at the age of 20 after the sudden demise of his father.
		He was declared King in November 1950 at the age of four after King Tribhuvan and then Crown Prince Mahendra secretly left Kathmandu for India to return in 1951.
	www.khukurihouseonline.com /Content/Gurkhas (593 words)

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