Jayant Rana

King of Gorkha, Nara Bhupal Shah, made Jayant Rana commander of his army with Maheshwar Panta.

[1] King of Kantipur, Jaya Prakash Malla, appointed Rana to defend attacks from Gorkha as he had inside information on their strengths and weaknesses.

[3] Like his father, he attacked Nuwakot, but he failed to win, thus he began to improve military technology and manpower.

[5] However, Kantipur was celebrating a major festival of Indra Jatra, thus he failed to get any additional soldiers to defend Nuwakot.

[5] Meanwhile, Prithvi Narayan Shah attacked Nuwakot, as soldiers were unprepared so they started to run away to Belkot.

Gorkhali troops storming Nuwakot Fort during the Battle of Nuwakot (1744).