A note from Gorkha Palace to the Guṭhī Bandobasta Aḍḍā accompanying the copy of a copperplate (VS 1960)
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty4-016
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50B4-016
- Author or attribution
- Astrid Zotter, editor and translator; Gorkha Palace office, historical issuer
- Record type
- Reference
- Language
- Nepali / English
- Date / edition
- 2019; revised 2023-01-25
- Source / repository
- Documenta Nepalica — Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — Batch 4, November 2026; Historical ritual and temple document editions; Historical Document Editions; Government Records
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This correspondence explains why a certified copy of the Kali temple’s endowment charter could not immediately be sent to the trust administration. The copperplate was kept in the palace treasury, which could be opened only during the principal autumn and spring festivals. The note reports the copying and certification process once access became possible. Its complete Nepali text and English translation give unusually concrete evidence for the relationship between ritual calendars, restricted archival access and nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century temple administration. Read together with the charter it accompanied, it helps distinguish a historical donation from the later documentary witness through which that donation is now studied. It is a separate letter about transmission, not a duplicate charter.
Curator source KALI-50B4-016. Historical ritual and temple document editions. Research supplement dated 5 November 2026.
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16. A note from Gorkha Palace to the Guṭhī Bandobasta Aḍḍā accompanying the copy of a copperplate (VS 1960)
Author/editor: Astrid Zotter, editor and translator; Gorkha Palace office, historical issuer | 2019; revised 2023-01-25
Type / language: Complete scholarly digital edition and English translation of a historical document | Nepali and English
This correspondence explains why a certified copy of the Kali temple’s endowment charter could not immediately be sent to the trust administration. The copperplate was kept in the palace treasury, which could be opened only during the principal autumn and spring festivals. The note reports the copying and certification process once access became possible. Its complete Nepali text and English translation give unusually concrete evidence for the relationship between ritual calendars, restricted archival access and nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century temple administration. Read together with the charter it accompanied, it helps distinguish a historical donation from the later documentary witness through which that donation is now studied. It is a separate letter about transmission, not a duplicate charter.
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Astrid Zotter, editor and translator; Gorkha Palace office, historical issuer. A note from Gorkha Palace to the Guṭhī Bandobasta Aḍḍā accompanying the copy of a copperplate (VS 1960). Documenta Nepalica — Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 2019; revised 2023-01-25. https://nepalica.hadw-bw.de/nepal/editions/show/3666
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