Mahindra Simha ruled Kathmandu for only a handful of years in the early eighteenth century, one of several kings navigating the increasingly fractious political competition among the three Malla kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley — Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur. Within decades of this coin's striking, Prithvi Narayan Shah would launch the campaign that unified Nepal under Gorkha rule and extinguished the Malla dynasties entirely by 1769.
Mahindra Simha ruled Kathmandu for only a handful of years in the early eighteenth century, one of several kings navigating the increasingly fractious political competition among the three Malla kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley — Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur. Within decades of this coin's striking, Prithvi Narayan Shah would launch the campaign that unified Nepal under Gorkha rule and extinguished the Malla dynasties entirely by 1769.