Hey Many and Nepe Sahila, Im guessing that at that time, kathmandu used to be pretty small....the NewRoad Gate was the entrance to the city, outside it was ghanaa Jungle.......I remember my grandmom tellin me, when the Ranas killed those martyrs, she went to see Shukra Raj lai mareko thau in Teku, and it was a long walk past the woods she said!!!.....outside of bhimsentha, syaal haru karauthiyo re.....so probably...in the 1300s kathmandu must've been really small...small enough that you can see all the houses from atop Taleju. Also at that time, they didnt have as tall buildings as they have these days. Didnt know the story of Pratap Malla having his father emprisonned?? History, a lot of time can be learned through the literature of that era, if you read newari literature from the past, you can see a lot of places where the king gave rewards for some good deed, the king helping people, and the king punishing the wrong doers....I havent read a lot of them, only bout one or two.... However, in the stories I read, I can see a lot of royal presence in the lives of the people, as in strict rules against certain practices, strict rules against selling alcohol, and stuff like that. One example/smthing i learnt recently about the mallas is that the mallas werent very keen of the Sati system, where the widow of a dead person sits on her husbands' pyre. They didnt completely ban it, for it was against the hindu system, but they made a rule that no-one can force a widow who doesnt want to follow the sati system....also they made a rule that if a wife is pregnant, she should not be let to sit on her husbands pyre. Anyways...back to the topic...for the time they lived in, in the 1300s, when the americans didnt exist....France and England were ruining all their country's resources in the Hundred Year's war burning each other down; The Mallas were doing pretty good comparatively.