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Prithvi Narayan Shah was a member of the ruling dynasty of small kingdom Gurkha who conquers the several other states and founded the modern state of Nepal. It was blessed of Prithvi Narayan Shah who unified petite states into one and erected Kathmandu as its capital.

King Prithvi Narayan Shah was born in 27 poush, 1779 B.s as a prince to father Nara Bhupal Shah and mother Kaushalyavati Devi (First Wife of Nara Bhupal), but was raise and heave by his step mother Chandra Pravawati. From the adulthood itself he started to illustrate example of leadership by taking keen interest and concern in state affairs.

Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded to the throne of Gorkha at the age of 20 in 1799 after death of his father. He was always down to earth with his citizen; he used to have gossip with them about their needs and wants; which helped him to be preferred dynasty of Gurkha people. He always valued his citizen as prosperity of nations.

King Prithvi Narayan Shah Unification campaign kicked off with military defeat with battalion of Nuwakot in 1743 CE. He took defeat as a lesson, which helped him to learn about his troops, geographical situation of his and other kingdom territory. Nuwakot for him was always a first priority as it was bridge between Gorkha and Kathmandu and was also trading route to Tibet and Muglan.

He conquers Nuwakot with the help of Commander Kalu Pandey in second attempt in a subsequent year 1744 CE which is marked as significant steps in unification of Nepal. He attacks Nuwakot from three sides commanded by Kalu Pandey (Gerkhu Route), Kirti Mahodam Saha (Dharma Pani Route) and kings himself (front Route). The commander of the Nuwakot army was killed in the battle-field and the troops fled to Belkot. Thus, Nuwakot fell in the hands of Prithvi Narayan Shah. He planned to impose an economic blockade on the Kathmandu valley.

It’s said that King Prithvi Narayan Shah meet with the sage of Banaras in Gorkha who was welcomed and treated properly. Sage was pleased with the king and told king to ask for a boon. King solicits for the whole kingdom of Nepal. Sage requested king to meet him in Banaras. King then went to Banaras. Being pleased with King, Sage said “your desire will be fulfilled; I hereby give you the whole kingdom”. When king asked to take something’s as Guru Bheti the saga said, “When you have become the king of the whole of Nepal, you must provide the necessary facilities for the pilgrims to Gosainthan”. Prithvi Narayan Shah readily promised to do so.

He started to spy the Kathmandu, Bhaktaput and Kirtipur on his own. The ancient prosperity of three cities hiked his hierarchy need of greater Gurkha.

He attacked Kirtipur accompanied by Veteran leaders and warriors like Kalu Pande, Dalajit Shah, Dalamardan Shah, Tularam Pande and Bir Bhadra who attacked Kirtipur rampantly. After a terrible fight for six hours, the Gorkha troops got a severe blow from combined forces of Kirtipur and Jaya Prakash army. Prithvi Narayan Shah himself had a narrow escape. The brave 44 years old Kalu Pandey and four hundred Gorkhali troops were killed in the battle of Balkhu (Kirtipur). The Gorkha troops suffered a heavy loss and the surviving soldiers, along with the king, had to retreat back to Nuwakot. He conquers Kirtipur in third assault during the harvest season, effectively laying siege to the stronghold. After several months of blockade, the people of Kirtipur could not even get water to drink and were forced to surrender to the Gorkha army on 17 March 1766. This time the Gorkha army took over Kirtipur without a fight.

Makawanpur in the south was trading route between Kathmandu and India, so it was equally important for him to conquer Makawanpur. This was captured in 1763 CE only after 10 hours battle. In 1763 CE, the Gorkha army conquered seven other villages, including Dhulikhel and Banepa, and expanded the Gorkha state’s border line further north.

With this, the Kathmandu Valley was completely surrounded and blockaded. The ultimate lack of salt, oil, spices, and even clothes led to chaos in the valley and disaster struck Kathmandu. When the local government failed to pay its soldiers, the morale of its military dwindled. King Jaya Prakash of Kathmandu then asked military aid with British India.

In 1767 troops of Prithvi Narayan fought battle with British India in Sindhuligadi. Guerrilla attack against them from high mount of Sindhuligadi eventfully made British India flee with leaving the modern weapons at battle fields itself.

The chaos and political situation in Kantipur was advantaged to Prithvi Narayan. While three kingdoms of Kathmandu valley were engaged in clashes he impose economic blockade against the entire valley, He clogged the trade route to Tibet and India. The Gorkha army marched into the valley on 25 September 1768; Prithvi Narayan Shah won an easy battle over Kantipur as people of Kathmandu were celebrating the Festival of Indrajatra. Jaya Prakash Malla fled with his wife and took asylum in0 Lalitpur.

Eleven days later on 6 October 1768, he conquered Lalitpur both Jaya Prakash Malla and the King of Patan, Tej Narsingh Malla, took refuge in Bhaktapur, seven months later on 17 November 1769 he took over Bhaktapur.

After his conquest of Kathmandu, he conquered other small countries, his kingdom spread out from north to south he established Kantipur as a capital city of Gurkha Samrajya. He then turned his attention towards east. The Sena Kingdom of Choudandi was conquered by 1773 A.D. and Vijaypur , another Sena Kingdom was annexed shortly after. He extended his base from Punjab to Sikkim.

He also laid his idea for the guiding principles of governance, nationalism and foreign policy in Divya Upadesh, where he laid nice principle which states like following:

“Nepal is a small yam between two stones.” This indicates Nepal’s location between the large powers of China and India.
“Both the people, who take and who give bribe, are enemies of the nation. There will be no sin in executing them.”
“Nepal is a garden of four castes (consisting of Kshatriya, Brahman, Vaishya and Shudras) and thirty-six sub-castes.”
“Even if there is settlement in places with mines/quarries, relocate the settlement and operate the mine.”

Prithvi Narayan Shah died in January 1775, at the age of 52 in Nuwakot palace. He’s a true ruler a great warrior and father to kingdom of Nepal. His legacy and unification of several small states into one will be always honored by all the citizen of Nepal.

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