[1] The first translation of any Christian Scriptures into the Nepali language was done by William Carey's Serampore Mission.
[2] In January 1822, two officials from Kathmandu reviewed the text while visiting Serampore and “declared it to be the language current at Kathmandu, the capital, and throughout the country, with the exception of the mountaineers, who speak a language peculiar to themselves.” Little is known about how these New Testaments were distributed or used.
[3] The Church of Scotland established their Eastern Himalayan Mission in 1870, through which Scottish missionaries including Start, Niebel, and MacFarlane worked to translate individual books of the New Testament.
In 1821, the Serampore Mission published the first New Testament in “The Nepala Language” as “Vol.
In 1998, the International Bible Society (now Biblica, Inc.) published a New Testament called the Nepali Contemporary Version.
In 2010, the New Testament of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses in Nepali.
It was published online (also offline in PDF format) with mobile versions released through JW Library application in App stores.
In 2018, complete New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses in Nepali.