[2] Dharanidhar Koirala was born in 1893 in what is now Sindhuli District into a Hindu Brahmin family.

[4] In Banaras, he saw Indian people promoting their mother tongue which inspired him to "think about Nepal and the Nepali language".

[4] In 1918, he was exiled to India, where Koirala, Surya Bikram Gyawali, and Parasmani Pradhan became known as "SuDhaPa".

[6] The establishment of this organisation was seen as a major event in Nepali literature's history.

[7] Koirala was a key advisor to Sir Ralph Lilley Turner who published Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language in 1931.