[1] King Prithvi Narayan Shah used it to create an economic blockade to the Kathmandu Valley.

[2] According to historians, the fort had a court, a check post, and an office for a local governor.

[1] During the Anglo-Nepalese War, commander Ranabir Singh Thapa deployed many soldiers inside the fort.

[4][5] Thapa at the Makwanpur Gadhi stopped the Company troops from getting into the fort, and they subsequently went moved to capture the Sim Bhanjyang instead.

[8] Journalist Durga Lamichhane went inside the fort and the temple many times, and she said that the local residents created a rumour that she had died.