Throughout history, the Winner always gets the praise. Prithvi Narayan Shah was a cunning king and even though there is this bullshit goin on about him being a visionary and trying to "unify" Nepal, I think it is bullshit. He was just trying to conquer as much of Nepal as he could. I think the way he treated the Kirtipures after he defeated them and the way he backstabbed his "Meet" was very evil thing to do. And if there was no Prithvi Narayan Shah there would have been some other guy who would have unified Nepal anyway. I do give him some credit because unknowingly he gave us one country. However, to respect him for this doesn;t sound very plausible. The only think i respect him for are these: 1) Jai katak nagarnu, jhiki katak garnu 2) Nepal char jaat chatti barna ko phulbari ho. I think those 2 things just sum up why I have a tiny bit of respect for him. If you look down in history, there have been much better kings like Ram Shah and a lot of Malla kings (not all but a lot). Prithvi Narayan Shah was driven by avarice and power. He collected tax from the people so that he could just take as much land as possible. And people have indeed undermined the contribution of PNS's buhari Queen Rajyalaxmi and her dewar Bahadur Shah towards the unification of Nepal. They also did a lot to make Nepal bigger.