1978 history of Kathmandu full documentary

The Kathmandu Valley, which was at that point called “Nepal” hundreds of years before the rise of the cutting edge country condition of that name, is a 220 square mile bowl, 4,000 feet up in the lap of the focal Himalaya. Its history starts with a myth which recounts how the Bodhisattva (“Buddha-to-be”) Manjushri descended from the north and divided the valley edge to discharge the waters of a huge lake, subsequently rendering the valley livable for the engendering of the Buddhist confidence.

The Licchavi rulers of the fourth ninth hundreds of years set up the valley’s most antiquated consecrated locales, both Hindu and Buddhist, however it was the Malla lords of the thirteenth eighteenth hundreds of years who made its exceptional manufactured condition. From the rich green rice handle that yielded two or even three products a year on the ripe soils of the valley floor there emerged not one but rather three little city states: Kathmandu,

Bhaktapur, and Lalitpur (additionally called Patan). Each was focused upon a meandering royal residence complex with a sanctuary filled square, or Durbar square, adjoining it, and each contended with the others for control of the lucrative trans-Himalayan exchange.

The valley’s indigenous Newars built up their own particular style of customary engineering, of which the multi-layered “pagoda” sanctuary is the most significant shape. Their artisans’ popularity spread far and wide – even to the court of Kubilai Khan in Beijing.

Lord Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha, in the slopes 80 miles toward the west, attacked the valley in the mid-eighteenth century. The Malla lords neglected to join against him and were quickly overpowered and uprooted. The Shah ruler basically migrated his court from Gorkha to the Hanuman Dhoka royal residence in Kathmandu before going ahead to overcome and add a significant part of the domain that now constitutes Nepal.

 The ruler warmed to the nearby engineering, and when in 1770 he added a wing to the royal residence, the renowned nine-story Basantpur Tower, he had it worked in the customary Newar style.

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