राजवंश
The Royal Lines
Every dynasty that ever ruled Nepal, as a living line of kings. Click a king for his reign, his wives, his sons — and what became of each. When a son took the throne, the line continues; when a son died or was killed, it visibly ends.
राजामा क्लिक गर्नुहोस् — उनको शासन, पत्नी र छोराहरू खुल्छन्
Gopal Dynasty
The cow-herding dynasty of chronicle tradition — eight kings ruling from Matatirtha, remembered as the first rulers of the Kathmandu Valley. The vamshavalis preserve their story, though almost nothing survives of their years.
Mahispal Dynasty
The buffalo-herding Abhira dynasty that succeeded the Gopals — a short line of three kings, ended by the first great invasion: the Kirats from the east.
Kirat Dynasty
Nearly a millennium of Kirat rule — 32 kings by one chronicle's count, 29 by another's. Their kings appear in Sanskrit legend, their people survive today across Nepal's eastern hills.
Licchavi Dynasty
Nepal's first age of history — inscribed in stone. The Lichchhavis built law, castes, coinage and culture, and their kings are known by name because they carved themselves into cliffs and pillars.
Thakuri Dynasty
The 'dark' centuries between Licchavi and Malla — a long line of Thakuri kings known mostly from coins, chronicles and the calendar they started. Meanwhile Khas kingdoms rose in the west and Karnata ruled the Terai.
Malla Dynasty
Five and a half centuries of the Valley's builders — from Arimalla's first throne to the three rival courts of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, each out-building the others until the Gurkhas ended the game.
Shah Dynasty of Nepal
The dynasty that built Nepal: out of the small hill kingdom of Gorkha, Prithvi Narayan Shah carved a single state between Himalaya and India, and his heirs ruled it for 240 years. It ended not by conquest but by ballot — on 28 May 2008 the Constituent Assembly voted the monarchy out of existence and proclaimed a republic.
Rana Dynasty (Hereditary Prime Ministers)
For 105 years the throne of Nepal had a king and a ruler, and they were not the same man. From Jung Bahadur's bloodbath at the Kot armoury in 1846 to Mohan Shumsher's fall in 1951, one family kept the crown ornamental and the country locked — until a revolution opened the door.
From 2008 onward the throne was abolished — the "royal line" of Nepal became its elected governments, tracked in the master timeline.