A lālamohara from the King ordering Kavirāja Thāpā to provide ghee and oil for lighting lamps at Śivalaya Guṭhī (VS 1905)

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Identifier: K_0354_0054
Title: A lālamohara from the King ordering Kavirāja Thāpā to provide ghee and oil for lighting lamps at Śivalaya Guṭhī (VS 1905)
Type, original: lālamohara; copy

Content

Abstract: This lālamohara issues an order to Kavirāja Thāpā to provide materials like ghee (clarified butter) and oil required for burning the akhanda dipa lamps at the temple of Śiva out of income as revenue in form of ghee and oil collected from the plots of land under Dirgha Mān's possession.
Issued by and to: king; Kavirāja Thāpā
Place: Gorkhā Pokharithoka; Śivālaya Guṭhī; Śaiva
Donor, king: Rāja Guṭhī
Type of endowment: material
Region of endowment: Gorkhā Pokhari Thoka and Gorkhā Darbāra
Purpose of endowment: to provide materials required for lighting lamps
Amount of endowment: 241 dharnīs of ghee and oil

Date

Date: VS 1905 Jyeṣṭha bright 4 Monday
Further details:
Converted:

Script and language

Language, script: Nepali; Devanagari

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: 25; 29; cm
No. of folios:
Material, binding, and colour: Nepali paper; bound; unspecified
Condition: unspecified; complete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Bhadrakālī; card nos. 1-186; Kausi-Tośākhānā, Book no. 1; Bha. Gu. La. Ta. Ms. no. 39
Source and details: NGMPP catalogue card; Microfilmed on 31/01/1994 as NGMPP K 354/54
Running no., exposures: K 21717; 1

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 6/26/20, 12:00 AM; 12/5/22, 9:41 AM; 18
Notes: card gives on the top margin: "Śivālaya of Gorakhā Pokhari Thoka"
Technical terms: dhārni

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