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Nepal’s early history is so intertwined with legend, that it is sometimes almost impossible to separate fact from myth. A good example of this mingling of fact and fiction is the legend about the origin of the Kathmandu Valley. Legend has it that the Kathmandu Valley was once a large lake surrounded by mountains. It was known as Nag Hrat – ‘Tank of Serpents’ – as nagas or magical snake-beings were said to guard treasure lying at the bottom of the lake. The Buddha dropped a lotus seed into this lake, and it bloomed into a thousand-petalled lotus of blazing light. Centuries later, the Boddhisatva Manjushri arrived from the north and with a single stroke of his Sword of Wisdom, cut a gorge in the mountainous ring around the lake. The waters of the lake rushed out, leaving a flat and fertile bowl that is Kathmandu today. Whether it was really Manjushri who created the valley is also a matter of controversy. The Hindu belief is that it was Krishna who created the valley by throwing a thunderbolt that created the Chobar Gorge. Legend aside, the scientific view is that the valley was actually under water once and that its rivers do flow southward through the Chobar Gorge.
Nepal’s earliest recorded history begins with a mention of the Kiratis, a Mongoloid people who arrived there around the 7
century BCE (before the common era). Very little is known about them, apart from the fact that they were the first rulers of the Kathmandu Valley. Their first king Yalambar is mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
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