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The Authority File is a curated register of selected persons, places, regions, and organizations mentioned in the documents edited on this platform. Unlike the Attestations, which record every occurrence as it appears in a given text, entries here represent a single, disambiguated identity, bringing together variant name forms, dates, genealogical and institutional relationships, and other historical details drawn from across the corpus. Where possible, entries are linked to established external authorities (GND, VIAF, Wikidata, and GeoNames), situating the persons and places of pre-modern Nepal within the broader landscape of linked open data.


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ID Name Surname Type Notes Actions
1422 Bhāskara Pādhyā Pādhyā persName flourished: 1807 (VS 1864)–1833 (VS 1890); gender: male; details: representative of the tharaghara as witness in royal land grants. #checked# View details
2059 Bhasmeśvaraghāṭa placeName a ghat at the Paśupatinātha temple in Deopatan on the banks of the Bagmati river (Michaels and Tandan 1994: 60). #checked# View details
894 Bhāṭapārā placeName #empty# View details
1170 Bhaṭauli geogName unidentified river; document suggests a river in Ramechhap district. #checked# View details
1360 Bhāu Potanisa Potanisa persName flourished: 1944 (VS 1900, DNA_0004_0036); gender: male; details: a minister in the Government of Mahārāja Jankoji Rao Scindia II; employed as Dewan in the Jhansi territory under Captain Captain Ross (Anonymous 1844 : 32). #checked# View details
2522 Bhavadatta persName flourished: CE 1854 (VS 1911); gender: male; details: held the title of ḍiṭṭhā; #new# View details
1753 Bhavāni Giri Giri persName flourished: 1813 (VS 1869); gender: male; details: served as a witness to the emancipation of three slaves by Sundara Giri and his wife. #checked# View details
347 Bhavāni Śaṃkara Arjyāla Arjyāla persName flourished: 1833 (VS 1890); gender: male; details: representative of the tharaghara as witness in royal land grants. #checked# View details
1830 Bhavānibhakta Biṣṭa Biṣṭa persName flourished: 1851 (VS 1908); gender: male; details: sacrificed buffaloes at Mūlacoka, Kathmandu. #checked# View details
1827 Bhavānibhakta Khatṛ Khatṛ persName flourished: 1851 (VS 1908); gender: male; details: sacrificed buffaloes at Mūlacoka, Kathmandu; remarks: probably different from Bhavānībhakta Siṃ Khatrī. #checked# View details
1381 Bhavānībhakta Siṃ Khatrī Khatrī persName also known as: Bhavānibhakta Siṃ Khatrī, Bhawani Singh Khatri (?); flourished: 1832; gender: male; details: held the title of lephṭena (1832, DNA_0002_0016); remarks: A person called Bhawani Singh Khatri is attested in the secondary literature. Vaidya and Manandhar 1985: 149 refer to a letter on judicial a matter from Bhīmasena Thāpā to a certain Lieutenant Bhawani Singh Khatri dated 1830. Whelpton 1991: 181 n.53 reports of a sardāra Bhawani Singh as one of the aides of Māthavara Siṃ Thāpa in 1844. Whelpton 1991: 136 further mentions that this Bhawanī Singh Khatri fled to India together with Abhimāna Siṃ Basnyāt in 1845. He was killed shortly after the Kot Massacre of 1846 (Whelpton 1991: 163). However, it cannot be determined with certainty that both persons are the same; probably Bhavānibhakta Khatṛ is still another person. #checked# View details
1572 Bhavānidatta persName flourished: 1777 (VS 1834); gender: male; details: involved in performing the funerary rituals for King Pṛthvīnārāyaṇa Śāha. #checked# View details
358 Bhavānisaṃkara Khanāla Khanāla persName flourished: 1812 (VS 1869)–1833 (VS 1890); gender: male; details: representative of the tharaghara as witness in royal land grants. #checked# View details
2624 Bhavaprasāda Arjyāla Arjyāla persName flourished: 1905 (VS 1962); gender: male; details: held the title of kharidāra (at the Guṭhī Bandobasta Aḍḍā or Guṭhī Gosvārā under Śrī 3 Sarkāra?). #new# View details
517 Bhavaprasāda Upādhyā Upādhyā persName also known as: Bhavaprasāda Pādhyā; flourished: ?; gender: male; details: held the title of kharidāra; involved in certifying document copies. #checked# View details
2579 Bhāyarāma persName flourished: CE 1887 (VS 1944); gender: male; details: lived in Bhaktapur; #new# View details
2582 Bhāyerāma Bhaṭi persName flourished: CE 1887 (VS 1944); gender: male; details: lived in Bhaktapur; #new# View details
44 Bheḍāhā geogName a river in Parsā District; geonames:11845779. View details
336 Bhelachī placeName location needs to be verified; document suggests a city section of Kathmandu; is it identical to Valāchi, one of the 28 Maharjana ṭolas of Kathmandu (Toffin 1994: 451–452), or to Bhelache of Patan? #checked# View details
1690 Bhelakhu Bāhāḥ placeName also known as: Bhairavakūṭa Mahāvihāra, Dharmakīrti Mahāvihārayā Bhairavakūṭa Vihāra; a Buddhist monastery in Patan; NHDP:LAL0230. #checked# View details
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