Biography of King Prithvi Narayan Shah

Biography of King Prithvi Narayan Shah

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introduction

Prithvi Narayan Shah was a Shahbanshi king. He was born on the 27th of Pusha 1779. He is known as the nation-builder of modern Nepal who created a single country by gathering together the 20 and 40 states of Nepal divided into small states. Because of this, National Unity Day is celebrated in Nepal on the 27th of Push in his memory.

early life

Prithvi Narayan Shah was born as the son of King Narbhupal Shah and Queen Kauslyavati of Gorkha, a small hill kingdom within Nepal. Since his childhood, he was very brave, brave, intelligent and hardworking, he was also perfect in archery, sword, horse racing etc. He was given the knowledge of Ramayana, Mahabharata and later Sukraneeti.

state visit

Prithvi Narayan Shah, who had a diplomatic mind, had already observed the situation in Gorkha and Kathmandu when he was growing up, and it is said that he had a desire to conquer Kathmandu even then. V.No. After the death of King Narbhupal Shah in 1799, Prithvi Narayan became the king of Gorkha at the tender age of 20 years. V.No. In 1800, at the age of 21, Prithvi Narayan Shah started the unification journey.

Prithvi Narayan Shah first attacked Nuwakot but was defeated. He again attacked Nuwakot in 1801 with more than 1000 troops under the leadership of Kalu Pande. Then Gorkha kingdom won over Nuwakot kingdom. After Nuwakot he won at Belkot. Buoyed by the victory, the Gorkhalis occupied Lamidanda. The Gorkhalis wanted to occupy Lamidanda by Tanahun. B.S. In 1812, Gorkhali soldiers had to fight with the combined forces of Lamjung and Tanahun. In that war, the Gorkhas had to suffer a great loss of life and wealth. However, due to the occupation of Naldum, Dahchok, Mahadev Pokhari, Siranchok as well as Kulekhani, Ipa, Malta etc., the Gorkha border reached Makwanpur.

The Gorkhali army which is expanding the borders of Gorkha B.S. In 1816 he conquered Shivpuri and Kavre. B.S. In the month of Bhadra in 1819, Bansharajpade and Keharsingh attacked Makwanpur with a large number of soldiers sent along with Mohddamkirti Shah, Dalmardan Shah, Shurpratap Shah, Nandu Shah, Daljit Shah. There was a battle for 10 hours and finally Digvandhana Sen surrendered his soul.

B.S. In 1814, Prithvi Narayan Shah attacked Kirtipur for the first time. During the 6-hour battle, many Gorkhalis achieved heroism. Prithvi Narayan Shah, who was captured at Kirtipur, survived only because of the moral code of non-execution. Then in the month of Bhadra in 1821, Prithvi Narayan Shah attacked Kirtipur again, but the people of Kirtipur did not give the Gorkhali soldiers a chance to enter Kirtipur by breaking the Gopur fort. After the second attempt also failed, Gorkhali army for the third time V.S. In 1822 again attacked Kirtipur and achieved success.

Jayaprakash Malla, thinking that the Gorkhali's first attack would be in Kantipur, asked the British for military and arms support. To help King Jayaprakash Malla, V.S. In 1823, under the leadership of Kinlock, 2,400 soldiers marched through Sindhuligarhi in eastern Nepal towards Kathmandu. As Prithvi Narayan Shah was already informed about this, he attacked with full preparation and the British soldiers fled. Prithvi Narayan Shah B.S. On 13th Ashwin 1825, around the time of Indra Jatra, Naradevi, Tudikhel and Bhimsensthan attacked from 3 sides and conquered Kantipur. B.S. After the defeat in the war on November 1, 1826, the king of Bhaktapur, Ranjit Malla, surrendered and the Gorkhas also captured Bhaktapur.

As Makwanpur was a powerful state at that time, Prithvi Narayan Shah's B.S. Married in 1794. However, later Hemkarna Sen expressed his inability. His second marriage was to Narendra Lakshmi, daughter of Abhiman Singh Rajput of Kashi. His second marriage was to Narendra Lakshmi, daughter of Abhiman Singh Rajput of Kashi. Pratap Singh Shah and Bahadur Shah were born to Narendra Lakshmi.

V.No. 1831 (S.N. 1774) In the middle of November, Prithvi Narayan Shah, who had gone to Nuwakot to escape the winter, fell ill in the Nuwakot palace. As his health got worse and worse, he was taken to Devighat there as per his wish. She remained at the ghat for nine days and died at seven o'clock in the morning on the 27th of December. While stationed at the ghat, he gave sermons regarding Nepal's geopolitical situation, social life, defense and development, which are also known as 'divine sermons'.

success

Prithvi Narayan Shah started the great journey of unification of Nepal and merged many places into the nation of Nepal and created flower gardens of four varnas and thirty-six castes. As a result, he was called the creator of the nation and his birthday was celebrated as Ekta Diwas. Historians see the purpose of Prithvinarayan as the demand of the age.

A person's maturity, courage, self-strength is not in his age, but in his thoughts. A person who has a big goal cannot achieve success all at once. Even if he is defeated, he takes the field again and again and leaves victorious.