born: 1758 in Gaikhur, Gorkha;

died: 1831 in Varanasi;

gender: male;

details:

famous court astrologer;

came to Kathmandu around 1778;

joined the conquests of western Nepal under Bahādura Śāha;

kept track of military events in his almanac and fixed the auspicious timings for the attacks when the Gorkhālīs conquered some Bāīse Rājyas and Caubīsī Rājyas in 1786;

wrote the Durgārcanakalpataru for Raṇabhīma Śāha of Salyan in 1793;

spent his last years at Varanasi;

further literature:

Panta VS 2022, Panta VS 2023a, Panta VS 2023b, Panta VS 2023c, Panta VS 2025, Panta VS 2037.

normdata:

gnd:1032813083.

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