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Tej Narsingh Malla

18th century · 18th century

Tej Narsingh Malla was the last Malla king of Lalitpur (Patan) in the Kathmandu valley, raised to the throne by its nobles in the 1760s as Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha closed in on the valley. When Gorkha forces took Lalitpur in 1768 he fled to Bhaktapur, and he was captured when that city fell in 1769 and died in prison.

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