Rajya Prakash Malla, also spelled Rajyaprakash, (
Nepali
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: राज्यप्रकाश मल्ल) was a
Malla dynasty
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king and the
King of Patan. He succeeded
Vishnu Malla
Vishnu Malla (Nepali language, Nepali: बिष्णु मल्ल) was a Malla dynasty (Nepal), Malla dynasty king and the Kingdom of Lalitpur, King of Patan. He succeeded Yoga Prakash Malla and reigned from 1729 until his death in 1745.
...
and reigned from 1745 until his death in 1758.
[Shaha, p. 77.]
Early life
Rajyaprakash Malla was the third son of
Jagajjaya Malla
Jagajjaya Malla ( Nepali: जगज्जय मल्ल) was a Malla ruler and the thirteenth king of Kantipur. He succeeded Bhaskara Malla in 1722 as the King of Kantipur. Jagajjaya was the grandson of Mahipatendra Malla (son of Pratap Mal ...
, king of
Kantipur. His eldest brother and the heir apparent of
Kantipur Rajendra Malla died while he was young. Some nobles wanted Rajyaprakash Malla to be the successor to
Kantipur instead of his brother
Jaya Prakash Malla. However, King Jagajjaya rejected this proposal and Jayaprakash succeeded Jagajjaya. Suspecting a ''coup'' from Rajyaprakash, Jayaprakash expelled him from
Kantipur and he fled to
Patan Patan may refer to several places in Afghanistan, India and Nepal:
Afghanistan
*Patan, Afghanistan
India
* Patan district, in the state of Gujarat
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* Patan was the ancient capital of Gujara ...
. Later,
King Vishnu Malla, also his brother-in-law, nominated him as his successor to the throne of Patan.
[Burleigh, p. 64.]
Reign
Rajyaprakash succeeded Vishnu Malla in 1745. His reign was full of political turmoil. The court officials of Patan, ''pramanas'', exercised more power than Rajyaprakash. Rajyaprakash went blind in 1752 and died six years later in 1758. A lot places south of Patan had already been annexed by
Prithvi Narayan Shah of
Gorkha when Rajyaprakash died.
[Burleigh, p. 66.]
Like his predecessors, Rajyaprakash, was also a religious monarch. He donated lands and money to temples and
guthis.
The courtiers of Patan installed
Visvajit Malla on the throne after the death of Rajyaprakash in 1758.
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