Bhaskaradeva () was a Thakuri king of

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

who reigned from .

Ancestry

The ancestry of Bhaskaradeva is still a topic of debate among scholars. The older chronicles such as the

Gopal Raj Vamshavali The Gopal Raj Vamshavali (IAST: Gopālarājavaṃśāvalī, Devanagari: गोपालराजवंशावली) is a 14th-century hand-written manuscript of Nepal which is primarily a genealogical record of Nepalese monarchs. One of the m ...

do not note a change of dynasty from Lakshmikamadeva to Bhaskaradeva. However, a less popular opinion such as of Sylvain Lévi and Daniel Wright implies a change of dynasty, and further adds that Bhaskaradeva had dethroned either Lakshmikamadeva or Jayadeva and became the king. They suggest that Bhaskaradeva was a Thakuri from Nuwakot, and belonged to the same dynasty as

Amshuverma Amshuverma or Amshu Verma (595 CE - 621 CE; Devanagari: अंशुवर्मा) rose to the position of ''Mahasamanta'' (equivalent to prime minister) about 595 CE when King Sivadev I was ruling in the Licchavi (kingdom) of Nepal. By 604 A ...

. Modern authors such as D.R. Regmi, and Luciano Petech are strongly critical of the latter argument.

Reign

Bhaskaradeva had a joint rule with Jayadeva from , and after then he was the sole ruler of

. Even though Jayadeva is generally considered a co-ruler with Bhaskaradeva, the former's status was inferior, i.e. a ''

junior king A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a coronation crown, crown upon a monarch's head. The term also generally refers not only to the physical crowning but to the whole ceremony wherein the act of crowning occurs, along with the ...

'', during the reign of Bhaskaradeva, and even Lakshmikamadeva. Bhaskaradeva was succeeded by Baladeva in .

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