Limbu and the Lost Koshi Kingdoms: Eastern Nepal Before the Shahs
Before Prithvi Narayan Shah swept east, the Koshi hills were ruled by the Limbu monarchs of the 'Ten Kings' confederacy — a tradition of elected rulers, sacred treaties with the soil, and fierce resistance to Gorkhali expansion. Episode 125 of The History of Nepal: Kingdoms in the Shadow of the Himalayas takes you into the little-known world of the Limbuwan principalities, from their origin myths tied to the mythical kingdom of Samyung, to the bloody Siege of Chainpur in 1774, when a Limbu warrior queen defended her fort against the Gorkhali army. Along the way, Lucas and Luna explore the Limbu script — Sirijanga — invented in the 9th century but suppressed for centuries, the sacred texts of the Mundhum, and the lingering legacy of Limbu autonomy within the Nepali state today. For listeners who thought Nepal's pre-unification history was only Kathmandu and the western hills, this episode opens a new window onto the eastern Himalayas.
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