29 Facts About Pratap Malla

Pratap Malla was a Malla king and the eighth King of Kantipur from 1641 until his death in 1674.

Pratap Malla attempted to unify Kathmandu Valley by conquering Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, but failed in the effort.

Pratap Malla was successful in extending and securing the borders of Kantipur and was responsible for the monopoly over trade with Tibet.

Pratap Malla's reign is seen as a cultural and economic high point of the Malla dynasty.

The niche above the gate is Krishna in his ferocious tantric aspect, flanked by more gentle, amorous Krishna surrounded by gopinis, and by King Pratap Malla playing a lute, and his queen.

Pratap Malla was born to his Maithali origin mother and a Malla origin father Lakshmi Narasinha Malla.

Pratap Malla imprisoned his father on the grounds of insanity and sat on the throne in 1641 AD Pratap Malla was a very ambitious king.

Pratap Malla had two queens: the first being a Maithali lady of Southern Nepal and the second being a sister of Zil-gnon dbang-rgyal rdo-rje, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist guru, who had served as an advisor to him.

Pratap Malla is said to have repented this act so much so that he wanted to absolve himself of his sins and consulted the wise and learned men on the matter.

Pratap Malla performed Koti Hom, weighed gold on one scale and himself on the other and gave it away in charity.

Pratap Malla had five sons: Bhupendra Malla, Chakrabartendra, Nripendra, Mahipatendra, and Parthibendra.

Pratap Malla wanted his sons to have experience in the administration of the country even during his own lifetime.

Pratap Malla often fought with Lalitpur and Bhaktapur to annex them to his kingdom but could not succeed.

Pratap Malla tried to play the kings of Lalitpur and Bhaktapur against each other.

In 1634 AD, when Siddhi Nara Singha Malla was engaged in performing Koti Hom, Pratap Malla availing himself of the opportunity, made a surprise attack on Patan and conquered some of the places important from the strategic point of view.

Pratap Malla gave a lot of trouble to Narendra Malla, King of Bhaktapur.

Pratap Malla made Narendra Malla pay tribute to him in the form of elephants.

Later, again he sided with Shree Niwas Pratap Malla and laid a siege on Bhaktapur.

Pratap Malla set up an image of Hanuman beside his palace.

Pratap Malla reached an agreement with the Tibetans under which the boundary line between Gorkha and Tibet was drawn at Kukurghat, thus giving Ram Shah control over one of the main channels of communication between Nepal and Tibet.

An army commanded by his brother, Bhim Pratap Malla, was sent to Kuti in the 1630s and again in the period between 1645 and 1650.

Pratap Malla granted them permission to preach the new religion, but without waiting for permission for a permanent stay, they left for Agra, the headquarters of the Tibet-Hindustan Mission in India.

Pratap Malla gave full permission for the Law of Christ to be introduced into his kingdom.

Pratap Malla looks towards his private prayer room on the third floor of the Degutaleju Temple.

The column was erected in 1670 by Pratap Malla and preceded the similar columns in Patan and Bhaktapur.

The figure is said to have been brought to its present location by Pratap Malla, having been found in a field to the north of the city.

When King Pratap Malla lost his son, his wife, the queen, remained grief-stricken.

Pratap Malla desperately wanted to see a little smile on her lips; so he announced that anyone who made the queen laugh would be rewarded adequately.

Pratap Malla placed a large vajra placed in front of the stupa.