A pratijñāpatra from King Gīrvāṇayuddha providing land as compensation to Mīra Munsī Rajā Khā̃ [VS 1865]
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Abstract
This document from King Gīrvāṇayuddha promises to provide land as compensation for the loss of harvest-based income incurred when Mīra Munsī Rajā Khā̃ was transferred to Kathmandu.
Diplomatic edition
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⟪५७⟫⟪११०⟫⟪७२५⟫1विदाईकवि2[?][?]उनाके[unknown seal ][unknown seal ]1आगेमिरमुन्सिरजाषांकेतेराकविलालिनजानालाईविदाईवक्स्यौमधेसवाटकवि
2लाऊठाईयाहाल्यायापछि•कविलाराषनालाईकाठमाडौमाघर१मानाचावलषेत[?]
3छाप१औतेरोवर्ष१कोवालिसय१२मध्येभर्नानभयाकाचारसैकोजगासप्तरिम
4हुतरिमाभर्नागरिवक्सौला•आफ्नाषातिरर्जामासितकविलाल्याईहाम्रानिमकको
5सोझोचिताईलायाकाटहलकोरुजुहाजिरभैगर्न्यागरईतिमीतिफाल्गुनसुदि६रो२
Translation
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Leave (granted) to bring family
[unknown seal ]
[unknown seal ]
Regarding the following: to Mīra Munsī Rajā Khā̃.
We have granted you leave in order to bring your family [to Kathmandu]. After you bring family here from the Madhesa, we will provide you with 1 house in Kathmandu to shelter them, ...4 [plot of] mānā cāmala land, and 1 [plot of] chāpa [land]. Moreover, of your annual bāli, amounting to [Rs.] 1,200, we will replace the [remaining] unreplaced land, [amounting to a bāli of Rs.] 400 with land in Saptari [and] Mahutari. Be mindful of proper conduct, bring your family [here], be loyal to us5 , and do the assigned duties, being present according to the schedule for them.
Monday, the 6th of the bright fortnight of Phālguna [in the Vikrama year 1865].
Commentary
This document is one of a series of 13 documents (E_2738_0002~E_2738_0014) bundled together in the private collection of J.C. Regmi. It itself does not mention the year, but other documents in the bundle (E_2738_0011, E_2738_0012 E_2738_0013 and E_2738_0014) are dated as [VS] 1865 (CE 1809). The present document is therefore likely to be from the same year.
Rajā Khā̃ held the post of mīra munsī (“head of munsīs”) most probably as the executive head of the munsīs in the Nepalese court. He is so far the earliest known mīra munsī in the Shah period, based on the documentary evidences. Another well known mīra munsī was Lakṣmīdāsa Pradhāna who served as the executive chief of the Munsīkhānā for a major part of the 19th-century.
For more documents concerning Mīra Munsī Rajā Khā̃, see Regmi 1978: 33-34.