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Nepal's prehistory is steeped in myth and legend but the tales from their
early days hold the key is to understanding the present
in prehistory
it is believed that a hindu sage name Ne Muni who meditated in Teku
made Bhumi Gupta a king
the king became not only the founder of gopal dynasty but also the first king
of Nepal
it is believed that the word Nepal means the country looked after by Ne
Gopal dynasty ruled in Nepal for five hundred and twenty one years and
they were called gopal because they used rear cows
after gopal dynasy came Abhire dynasty
also known as mahipal
Abhire use to rear buffalos
Bir singh
of abhire dynasty who is believed to have come from south india took over the
power from Jit Gupta of Gopal dinasty they ruled for more than one
hundred years
Kirat dynasty took powered by defeating the last king of abhire dynasty
long before the modern nation of Nepal came into being
the mountain kingdom of Nepal occupied the region now known as the kathmandu
vally
between nine hundred dc toad two hundred
it was that home of the Kirats
the first recorded rulers of Nepal
who are thought to have migrated to nepal from the east
they are the forbears of limbu rai
sunwar yakkha and other mountain tribes
the Kirats ruled for about one thousand years and were ruled by a
total of twenty eight king's during that time
the first and best remembered king was yalamber
and
this is the picture of king yalamber in war outfit
he extended his kingdom as far as the tista river in the east and the trisuli
in the west
it is said that during the battle of Mahabharat yalamber went to witness
the battle with a view to take the side of the loosing party
krishna
knowing the intention of the yalamber and strength and unity of the kirats
though that the war would be unnecessarily prolonged if yalamber
sided with the Kauravs so
by a clever stroke of diplomacy
Krishna cut off yalambers head
during the region of seventh Kirats king Jitedasti Gautam Buddha visited
the Nepal valley along with his disciples
he visited the shrines of Shwyambo and Guheshwori
and preached his doctrine
but Kirats did not embraced buddhism but
they made Buddha welcome and
to this day buddhism continues to flourish in Nepal
the kirat dynastu came to an end around two hundred eighty when what
began as a gradual migration of people from the south
from what is now india became an invasion force that push the kirats
out of the kathmandu valley up into east Nepal
the incoming forces erased all but few traces of
the once-mighty kirats dynasty and to this day many kirats remain
unaware of their rich and proud heritage
these kirats areas now include Okhaldhunga Solukhumbu
Khotang
Bhojpur
Shankauwasava Taplejung
Panchatar Dhankuta Ilam
Udayapur
Dolkha
Ramechap
and part of Morang
Sunsari and Jhapa districts
in this map
the orange region
where most kirats settled
this area right here
they have undergone many changes since then
however
they have still found to have protected the unique languages and cultural
heritage
Gasti was the last kirat king
he was defeated by the soma king Nimisha thus kirats rule comes to
an end them Nimisha becomes the first king of the soma period
the soma had established a principality in the west
while the kirats kings were rulling over the nepal valley
the soma kings attacked nepal many times during the reign of Patuka
second last ruler of kirats but they could not defeat him
the last kirats king
gasti was comparatively weak so he was defeated by Nimisha a who became the first
soma king of Nepal in eighty two oh five
nimisha made a gold plated roof of the temple pashupatinath during
his time
Vaskerverma was the fifth
and last soma king to rule over nepal
during the time of Gautam Buddha the kings of the Lichhavi dynasty were
ruling over Vaisali
modern bihar in india
when the kings of the Kushan empire became powerful in india
the lichhavi migrated to nepal
the Lichhavi invaded nepal from northern india and overthrew the
declining soma dynasty that briefly succeeded the kirats
they reimpose hinduism and the caste system
which continues to this day
the lichhavi period was a golden age of napali art and architecture
and they are credited with building some of kathmandus this great landmarks such as
the chagunnarayan temple of vishnu was said to be built by mandev
he minted corns in his name for the first time in the history of nepal
and named them mananka
the majestic buddhists stupas of baudhanath
and swyambhonath was built during this period
at the death of shivadeva
one of the ruler in lichhavi period
in six oh five ad
Amshuvarma became the sole sovereign and adopted the title of king
he belongs to the thakuri clan and he established thakuri dynasty
in nepal he was a true servant of the people without any political bias
according to some inscriptions king shivadeva
use to say that smshuvarma was a man of universal fame and he always
destroyed his enemies by his heroic nature
during the reign of an amshuverma
Harshverdanae of india and srong tsang gampo of tibet's were trying to
extend their territories
keeping Harshverdana at arm's length
he made a matrimonial alliance with tibet
he gave his daughter Vrikuri in marriage to the tibetan kings srong tsang gampo
he also gave his sister Bhogadevi
in marriage to an indian king shur sen
with all this political strategy and farsightedness
amshuverma maintained the sovereignty and independence of the country
it was during this period that nepal and tibet developed close
relationship and he's the one who established the trade routes
the ruling period of amshuverma is known as the golden age in the history
of nepal
the system of declaring prince was also started from his periods he built
palace called Kailashkut and
this is the statue of amshuverma in chhauni museum
please see the part two for rest of this video
thank you for watching