Khasa

Khasa was a Himalayan kingdom of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, centred on Sinja in western Nepal. In 1337 Punya Malla took the throne, following rulers who had left inscriptions as far away as Lumbini.

His son Prithvi Malla brought the kingdom to its greatest extent, including Guge, Purang and the Nepali hills to Dullu. His 1357 pillar inscription at Dullu used an early form of Nepali in Devanagari script. After Abhaya Malla's reign the kingdom fragmented into the twenty-two Baise and twenty-four Chaubisi hill chiefdoms, among them the future state of Jumla.