Arimalla

Arimalla or Ari Dev (reigned 1200-16) was the first king of the Malla dynasty in Nepal.

Beginning in the early twelfth century, leading notables in Nepal began to appear with names ending in the term malla, (wrestler in Sanskrit), indicating a person of great strength and power. According to the legends [1] Ari Malla was a pioneer figure in wrestling and the title Malla was thus made hereditary by the king to his descendants. According to [2], he was a licchavi King as Aridev and with the love of wrestling he adopted Malla as a formal surname making him the First Malla King. He led his army against the licchavi Kings and conquered the Kathmandu valley. He was the first king to be so called, and the practice of adopting such a name was followed regularly by rulers in Nepal until the eighteenth century. (The names of the Malla kings were also represented as, for example, Ari Malla.) This long Malla period witnessed the continued importance of the Kathmandu Valley as a political, cultural, and economic center of Nepal. Other areas also began to emerge as significant centers in their own right, increasingly connected to the Kathmandu Valley.

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Gopal Raj Vansawali
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Malla Dynasty rulers
Nepal	Ari Malla I c.1201 – 1216 Abhaya Malla c.1216 – 1255 Ranasura c.1216 Jayadeva Malla c.1255 – 1260 Jayabhima Deva c.1260 – 1271 Jayasimha Malla c.1271 – 1274 Ananta Malla c.1274 – 1310 Jayananada Deva c.1310 – 1320 Ari Malla II c.1320 – 1344 Jayarudra Malla c.1320 – 1326 Jayaraja Deva c.1347 – 1361 Jayarjuna Malla c.1361 – 1382 Jayasthiti Malla c.1382 – 1395 Jayajyotir Malla c.1395 – 1428 Jayakiti Malla c.1395 – 1403 Jayadharma Malla c.1395 – 1408 Jayayakshya Malla c.1428 – 1482
Kantipur	Ratna Malla 1482 – 1520 Surya Malla 1520 – 1530 Amara Malla 1530 – 1538 Narendra Malla 1538 – 1560 Mahendra Malla 1560 – 1574 Sadashiva Malla 1574 – 1583 Shivasimha Malla 1583 – 1619 Lakshminarasimha Malla 1620 – 1641 Pratapa Malla 1641 – 1674 Chakravartendra Malla 1669 Mahipatendra Malla 1670 Nripendra Malla 1674 – 1680 Parthivendra Malla 1680 – 1687 Bhupalendra Malla 1687 – 1700 Bhaskara Malla 1700 – 1714 Mahindrasimha Malla 1714 – 1722 Jagajjaya Malla 1722 – 1736 Jaya Prakash Malla 1736 – 1746, 1750 – 1768 Jyoti Prakash Malla 1746 – 1750
Lalitpur	Purandara Simha c.1580 – 1600 Harihara Simha c.1600 – 1609 Shiva Simha (King of Kantipur) 1609 – 1620 Siddhi Narasimha 1620 – 1661 Srinivasa Malla 1661 – 1685 Yoga Narendra Malla 1685 – 1705 Loka Prakash Malla 1705 – 1706 Indra Malla (Purandara Malla) 1706 – 1709 Vira Narasimha Malla 1709 Vira Mahindra Malla 1709 – 1715 Riddhi Narasimha Malla 1715 – 1717 Mahindrasimha Malla (King of Kantipur) 1717 – 1722 Yoga Prakash Malla 1722 – 1729 Vishnu Malla 1729 – 1745 Rajya Prakash Malla 1745 – 1758 Vishvajit Malla 1758 – 1760 Jaya Prakash Malla (King of Kantipur) 1760 – 1761, 1763 – 1764 Ranajit Malla (King of Bhaktapur) 1762 – 1763 Dal Mardan Shah 1764 – 1765 Teja Narasimha Malla 1765 – 1768
Bhaktapur	Raya Malla 1482 – 1519 Prana Malla 1519 – 1547 Vishva Malla 1547 – 1560 Trailokya Malla 1560 – 1613 Jagajjyoti Malla 1613 – 1637 Naresha Malla 1637 – 1644 Jagat Prakasha Malla 1644 – 1673 Jitamitra Malla 1673 – 1696 Bhupatindra Malla 1696 – 1722 Ranajit Malla 1722 – 1769

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