A scribal note re Rāmānanda Bā̃ḍā's obtaining a mohara document from Queen Rājarājeśvarī that returned overseership of the Luthāma Guṭhī to his clan [VS 1860]
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Abstract
This document is a note from a scribe describing how Rāmānanda Bā̃ḍā obtained a mohara document in order to regain overseership of the Luthāma Guṭhī.
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Translation
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Venerable Mahārānī, the principal queen1 - 1
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After that, when we3 told [Bhājudhana Jaisī] that we had obtained a signed document4 , he said: "If you are so great a man, bring a mohara [document to me]." While we [immediately] set about getting a mohara [document], [our] father5 said: "-1- (i.e., the principal queen6 ) will arrive from Kaṭahara Ban. I have seen it in a dream. Don't rush things." Obeying [our] eighty-year-old father, we remained patient for 5 months. [Then,] -1- (i.e., the principal queen) appeared. We petitioned [her]. "A he-goat cannot be sacrificed to [another] he-goat. How can the guṭha of one subject be [given] to another subject?" [She] understood the details and had a mohara issued. [Below] is a copy of the mohara that put the operation of our ancestors' guṭha back into our hands.7
Commentary
This document narrates events that occurred after Bhājudhana Jaisī refused returning overseership of the Luthāma Guṭhī to Rāmānanda and demanded that he first obtain a royal mohara. The document reports that Rāmānanda followed his father's advice and waited for five months to first meet the queen, who was returning from Kaṭahara Ban. Kaṭahara Ban is apparently the name of a village along the frontier in the Tarai where Queen Rājarājeśvarī, on her return to Nepal from Banaras, was stopped from entering into Nepal and thus was compelled to stay there for some time (see Rana 1970: 18).
The document does not mention any names, but the identity of persons referred to can be learned from other documents in the series.