Posted by: dekchidriver March 3, 2009
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I love articles like these. "The Shah kings completely forgot their roots,". Yep, I did too, and now I declare myself Mexican.
"On his death bed, the king (PNS) told the people around him, I am a Magar
king. When you face death, you dispense with pretence and speak the
truth. The king's dying declaration is an indication that the Shah
kings were not of blue blood."
Is this verifiable? or is it just unanimously accepted that these were his exact words.
"The Shah kings' family deities - Goddess Manokamana and Gorkha Kali -
have Magar priests," he says. "If you are a Rajput, you would not have
a Magar priest."
If you are a Rajput you live in FRIGGIN RAJASTAN and jump out of fires!
"The Magar kings had the tradition of marrying the daughters of Tharu
kings. Prithvi Narayan Shah himself married a Tharu princess called
Kaushalyavati."
I guessing Rajputs were in short supply or almost extinct.
In his new book, "The return of the Mauryas", Singh says the Shah kings
began creating the fiction that they were descended from the Rajput
kings of India in order to hide their origin and commend greater
reverence from their subjects.
Out of the whole article this was the only plausible thing I found. And I agree with the Shahs if thats what they did. Because they knew that lineage was bullcrap, but to the general public it was everything, so they did what any sensible king would do to appease his people. Lie.
"On his death bed, the king (PNS) told the people around him, I am a Magar
king. When you face death, you dispense with pretence and speak the
truth. The king's dying declaration is an indication that the Shah
kings were not of blue blood."
Is this verifiable? or is it just unanimously accepted that these were his exact words.
"The Shah kings' family deities - Goddess Manokamana and Gorkha Kali -
have Magar priests," he says. "If you are a Rajput, you would not have
a Magar priest."
If you are a Rajput you live in FRIGGIN RAJASTAN and jump out of fires!
"The Magar kings had the tradition of marrying the daughters of Tharu
kings. Prithvi Narayan Shah himself married a Tharu princess called
Kaushalyavati."
I guessing Rajputs were in short supply or almost extinct.
In his new book, "The return of the Mauryas", Singh says the Shah kings
began creating the fiction that they were descended from the Rajput
kings of India in order to hide their origin and commend greater
reverence from their subjects.
Out of the whole article this was the only plausible thing I found. And I agree with the Shahs if thats what they did. Because they knew that lineage was bullcrap, but to the general public it was everything, so they did what any sensible king would do to appease his people. Lie.