Chapter 16

Mirgu, part of the snowy mountains,89,158,159

Mitha, a root,99

Mithila or Tirahut, an ancient kingdom,156,191

Mohan Singha, a chief of Kumau,294

Mohur, a coin,214,215

Mohurer, register in the Fouzdars office,155

Mokuddum, a petty officer, called also Mahato, Pradhan, and

Umra,102,113,150,153,155

Money of accounts,214, see Coin

Money, rent,220

Moon, family of,291

Morang, a lordship and district,138,151, etc.

Mosu,   ) a pulse, see Ervum Lens

Mosuri, )

Mountainous region,69,87,168,202

Muhammedans, see Musulman

Mujumdar, an officer of accounts,102

Mukhola, salt mine,286

Muktanath, hot springs, a place of pilgrimage,79,272

Mundi, a lordship and town,304,318

Mung a pulse, see Mas

Mungur a people, see Magar

Munsiyari, a territory,293

Munsuf of Bahadurgunj, his information,2

Muri, a measure of grain,216

Murmi, a people,25,52,59,169

Musa, a fruit tree, called Plantain by the English,230

Musa, a kind of pulse, see Dolichos

Music,37111

Musikot, two lordships,238,239,263,266,270,

276,280

Musk, a drug, and the animal producing it,94

Mustard, see Sinapis

Musulmans, properly Moslemin or Muhammedan,38

Myrica, called Karphul, a tree,85

Nadaun, a town,311,312,314

Nahan, a town,302,306

Nagarjun, a mountain,205

Nag Bamba Mal, chief of Malebum,270,271

Nai, a cast,20

Nalagar, a town,308

Nanakamata, a territory,293

Nandapur Tisuti, a lordship,129

Narabhupal or Nribhupal, Raja of Gorkha,244,262

Naragarhi a town,161

Narayan Das, a chief of Morang,2

Narayani river, see Gandaki

Nau, a cast of Newars,36

Nawab Singha, chief of Dang,278

Nawab Vazir, Muhammedan Prince of Oude or Ayodhya,277,278,301

Nawalpur, a town,183

Nayakot, a lordship, and its capital,238,239,241

Nayakot, a town of Nepal Proper,194

Neat cattle, including oxen, (Bos taurus,)76,217

Neb, an inferior minister of a prince,2,147

Negi or Adhikar, an inferior officer of government,114

Nepal Proper, conquest by the Gorkhalese,7

Definition,7,164,167,186192

Description,3,80,88,205, etc,

History,187, etc,

Name,187,192

Originally a lake,206

Newar, a people25,29, etc,48,50,59,190,191

210,225229,269

Nilkantha or Bara Nilkantha, a place of pilgrimage among the snow,

192,194

Nirbikhi,  ) a root,99

Nirbishi,  )

Nitre or saltpetre,164

Niyam Muni, (Nymuni of Kirkpatrick,) first king of Nepal,187,190

Nobility, see Aristocracy

Nribhupal, see Narabhupal

Nuggerkotie, tribe,25

Nurpur, a lordship and town,303,314

Nymuni, see Niyam Muni,

Oak Trees,83,202,217

Oaths,103

Orange, a fruit,73,230

Ordeal, trial by,103,104

Oriswa, a country,46

Ox, see Neat cattle,

Padam Chhal, a medicinal herb,100

Pagan, Mr, his accounts of the country,2

Paisah, a copper coin and money,214,215

Palaces,210

Palas tree, see Erythrina

Pali, a district and town,293,297

Paliya, a people,119

Palpa, a principality,131,170, etc,238,239,245,

247,251,258

Pamar or Pangwar, a tribe,240,298

Panauni, river,202

Panar river,298

Pangchayit, a kind of jury,102,114

Pangdu Kodo, a grain, see Cynosurus

Pangre, a family of Brahmans,103

Pangre, a noble family of Gorkha,110,254,259, see also

Damodar, Jagajit, and Ranjit

Pangtha, a family of Brahmans,103

Pangwar, see Pamar

Panicum colonum, Tangri, or Kakun, a grain,231

Panicum italicum, Kanguni, or Sami, a grain,231,275

Paper manufacture,232

Papti, a part of the snowy mountains,159

Parakeet,67,68

Parakrama, a turbulent chief,295,300

Parbat, a lordship, see Malebum

Parbatiya Basha or Khas Basha, the language spoken by the

Parbatiya Hindus,16

Parbatiya Hindu, a Hindu of the mountains,11,16,210,212

Pariyat mountains,315

Parwati, see Devi

Pasara, a district,168

Paspalum, called Sana Kodo, a grain,227,284

Pasture,64,75,90,204,217,288,297

Pasupatinath, a temple of Siva,208,212,219

Pathaniya, a tribe of Rajputs,314

Pathankot, a territory,314

Pathi, a measure of grain,216

Pati or squad, a subdivision of a company of regular troops,111

Patna, a city of Behar,195,212

Patwari, the clerk or register of a village,155

Pauriyal, a tribe,18

Pea, see Pisum

Peach tree,73

Peasantry,169

Perdix rufa, Chakor or Chakuri, a bird,95,235

Pergunah, a district or division of territory,114,150,152,

153,161,162,182

Phakali, a passage among the snowy mountains between Bhotan

and Thibet,127

Phakphok, part of the Himaliya mountains,159

Phala, a mart,166

Phalabam or New Dang, a town,278

Phaphar, a grain, see Amaranthus

Phaseolus calcaratus, Roxb. Lata Rato and Ruta Mas or

Hayngu May, a grain,227

Phaseolus Minimoo Roxb. Urid, and Kala Mas or May,

a grain,227,232,284

Phaseolus ocultatus Roxb. Seta Mas, or Chika May, a grain,227

Phaseolus racemosus Roxb. Lal Mung or Hayngu May, a grain,227

Phasianus Impeyanus or Dhangphiya, a bird,95,285

Pilgrimage,152,161,185,192,301,302

Pine apple,73,230

Pine trees,202,217, see also Pinus

Pinus longifolia, Salla or long-leafed pine, a tree,67,197

Pinus strobus, or Weymouth pine, a tree,83

Pinus picea, common spruce fir, or Hingwalka chhota Saral,83,96

Pisum arvense, Pea, Kerao, or Kaigo,228,284

Piuthana, a lordship,231,238,268

Plain region subject to Nepal, see Tariyani

Plants, spontaneous,63,67,83,200

Pluviometer, see Register of the Weather at the end

Poin, a lordship,238,239,269

Poison root,55,99

Pokang, a mart,158,159

Pokhara, a town and mart,242

Police,102, etc,149,212

Policy, see Gorkha

Population,209,242,266,267,268,269,274,

275,279,297

Portaw, a province of Thibet,121

Porters and porterage,233

Potatoe, common, see Solanum

Potatoe, sweet, see Convolvulus

Pradhan, a petty officer, see Mokuddum

Pradipa Sa, a chief of Garhawal,299,310

Pradyumna Sa, a chief of Garhawal,295,299,300

Praja, see Farmer who rents land to cultivate

Pratap Chandra, chief of Kumau,296

Prati Nidhi Tiwari, his account of the Khas country,4,291

Prayag, five places of worship at the junctions of the principal

branches of the Ganges,302

Prayaschitta, an expiation or fine,21,103

Presents, a source of revenue,106,154

Prithwi Narayan, king of Gorkha,141,144,171,192,211,

213,214,245,262,277

Prithwi Pal, Raja of Palpa,174,260

Process in law,102

Produce of an acre, see Crops, and216,225

Prostitution,235

Pujari, a priest who conducts the ceremonies of worship,211,219

Pulihu mountain,205

Pun, a tribe,279

Punishments, see Corporal, Fine, Prayaschitta

Puria, a tribe of Newars,37

Purubi Brahmans,17

Putaul, a tribe of Newars,36

Queen, Rani, Maha Rani, or virgin spouse of a Raja,105,211,212,

224,235

Queen of Rana Bahadur, regent of Gorkha,175,212,251,

252-258,261,264

Queen of Singha Pratap, regent of Gurkha, see Rajendra Lakshmi

Queen regent, concubine of Rana Bahadur,251,252-257

Radish Root,229

Rahal, a tribe,287

Raja, the king, his authority and establishment,102,105,147,

165,219

Raja, a chief, often very petty,261,298

Rajangka, a kind of capitation or income tax,106,154,156,

164,169

Rajbungsi, a tribe, see Koch

Rajdani, the court of the king,108

Rajendra Lakshmi, regent of Gorkha,247

Rajgar or ) a town, capital of Yasawal,314

Rajpur,   )

Rajpur or Champaranya, a lordship,129,131,170,172

Rajput, a tribe, see Chandel, Chauhan, Gautamiya, Katauch, Manuriya,

Pathaniya, Raythaur, Samal, Shalivahana, Suryabangsi, also

15,18,19,156,160,164,169,253,

266,267,269,286,297

Rama, ancestor of the Rajpur family,170

Ramagar, a town in Hanur,308

Ramajai Batacharji, his collections for the materials of this work,1

Ramnagar, a district,182

Rampur, chief town of Besar,307

Rana or Thakur, a title inferior to Raja, a lord,303,313

Rana, a tribe,18,19

Rana Bahadur or Swamiji, king and regent of Gorkha,174,175,

213,216,247,250-253,258-261,262,264,

287,300

Ranadhwar, a chief of Gorkha,262

Ranajor, an officer of Gurkha,305

Ranggapur, a district of Bengal, part of the ancient kingdom of

Kamrup,7

Rani, see Queen

Ranigar, a territory,299

Ranjit Pangre, an officer of Nepal,216

Ranjit Singha, the Sikh chieftain of Lahaur,259,305,311,

312,313,314,315

Rape seed, see Sinapis

Rapti or Jimri river,268

Raputi river,198,199

Ratna Sen, Raja of Palpa,177

Ravan Hrad lake,288

Rawa, a fortress,165

Rayapur, a lordship,304,305

Rayapur, a town, capital of Kottahar,314

Raythaur, a family, chiefs of Jaysalmer and Sirmaur,302

Reeds,64

Register, an office in several courts, see Kanungo, Mohurir,

Patwari, Suduriya

Reher, a territory,293

Rent of arable land,153,161,162,211,218,220,

284

of houses, see House

of pasture,153,155,162,217

Rerighat, a town,180,264

Revenue, see Customs, Duties, Farms, Fines, Law courts of, Mines,

Mint, Presents, Rajangku, Rent, Sayer, and also105,106,

112,115,149,150,153,154,156,161,


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