Management of Temples in Khotang
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- Catalogue identifier
- klm000082
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KLM000082
- Author or attribution
- Mahesh C. Regmi (editor/translator); original royal chancery
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1981-01-01
- Source / repository
- Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, Kathmandu; Digital Himalaya/Cornell digitization
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- KLM Research Sources — Second Set, 5 November 2026; Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship; Academic Research and Historical Documents; Published Historical Translations
Description and curator notes
This published royal order reinstates Devadetta Upadhyaya as priest of the Kalika temple and two other temples in Khotang, Majhkirat. It withdraws the competing appointment of Srikanta Bhattarai and restores the houses, rice lands and other property belonging to the priestly office and temple endowment. The priest is instructed to maintain worship, construct a temple and tiled roadside shelter, administer the trust and retain surplus income. The order provides concise evidence for the connection between Kali worship, landed support, religious service and royal control of appointments in eastern Nepal. The whole short English item is available, ending with its source reference. Its scope is a modern published translation of one administrative document rather than a detailed history of the temples or a complete edition of the underlying manuscript.
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Curator research source KLM000082, second set dated 5 November 2026. Verification, chronology, completeness, access and licence statements below are supplied by the curator, not a new independent audit by this library. Full texts are linked, not reproduced. Abstract languages do not change the full work's language label.
Management of Temples in Khotang
Author and date: Mahesh C. Regmi (editor/translator); original royal chancery • 1981-01-01
Publication: Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, Kathmandu; Digital Himalaya/Cornell digitization. Regmi Research Series, Year 13 no. 1 (1 January 1981), p. 4; complete short published royal-order translation.
Language: English
This published royal order reinstates Devadetta Upadhyaya as priest of the Kalika temple and two other temples in Khotang, Majhkirat. It withdraws the competing appointment of Srikanta Bhattarai and restores the houses, rice lands and other property belonging to the priestly office and temple endowment. The priest is instructed to maintain worship, construct a temple and tiled roadside shelter, administer the trust and retain surplus income. The order provides concise evidence for the connection between Kali worship, landed support, religious service and royal control of appointments in eastern Nepal. The whole short English item is available, ending with its source reference. Its scope is a modern published translation of one administrative document rather than a detailed history of the temples or a complete edition of the underlying manuscript.
Kali relevance: The Kalika temple is explicitly one of the three institutions governed by the appointment and property-restoration order; the relevance is substantive administration of Kali worship.
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Publication or repository record
Subjects: Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship; Academic Research and Historical Documents
Dates: Shrawan 4, 1883 VS; July 1826 as printed; 1981 English printed translation citing Regmi Research Collection 29, p. 29; original witness date not independently established
Rights: The printed series restricts use to private study and research and says it is not for public sale, distribution or display. Digital Himalaya provides free scans through a documented Cornell University Library digitization project. Link-only reference; no permission to republish the text is claimed.
Verification and limits: Complete short published translation checked against its scanned page. The original manuscript was not inspected. This is not a diplomatic edition or manuscript facsimile.
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The printed series restricts use to private study and research and says it is not for public sale, distribution or display. Digital Himalaya provides free scans through a documented Cornell University Library digitization project. Link-only reference; no permission to republish the text is claimed.
Citation
Mahesh C. Regmi (editor/translator); original royal chancery. Management of Temples in Khotang. Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, Kathmandu; Digital Himalaya/Cornell digitization. Regmi Research Series, Year 13 no. 1 (1 January 1981), p. 4; complete short published royal-order translation. 1981-01-01. https://d1i1jdw69xsqx0.cloudfront.net/digitalhimalaya/collections/journals/regmi/pdf/Regmi_13.pdf#page=9
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