[6] Also, the Queen Mother Tara Kumari imprisoned Bir Shamsher shortly for protesting against her proposal of Jagat Jang as the successor of Ranoddip Singh.
These events escalated the insecurity of Shamsher brothers and were strongly determined to achieve the power against Jagat Jang through the murder of Ranoddip Singh.
[7] Ranoddip Singh planned to send the Shamsher brothers with troops to Delhi on a British military exhibition and declare Jagat Jang as his successor.
Suddenly, the palace was closed after the end of the ceremony even on the presence of the Prime Minister Bir Shamsher which was against the tradition of the period.
On 23 Falgun 1943, there was an invitation to Prime Minister Bir Shamsher to attend the occasion of Samyak Puja of Buddhists without arms at Swayambhu.
[21] In December 1896, German archaeologist Dr. Alois Anton Führer was making a follow-up survey of the nearby Nigali-Sagar pillar which was earlier discovered and investigated by him in March 1895.
[24][25] According to some accounts, Fuhrer found the Lumbini pillar on 1 December, and then asked the help of the regional governor, General Khadga Shamsher Rana, to excavate it.
The Nepalese authorities under General Khadga Shamsher dug around the pillar, to find the ancient Brahmi inscription, which therefore had remained underground, hidden from view.
[28][25] (As per the many published articles and books written on this subject, it is not true that "Mr A. Fuhrer found the Lumbini pillar on 01 December and then asked the help of the regional Governor Khadga Shamsher Rana, to excavate it".
The Governor Khadga Shamsher Rana had earlier excavated the pillar with the help of Nepali sappers and local men, and on finding inscriptions on it which he was unable to read, made rubbings of it and sent it across the border to India, to a Mr V.Smith who was also interested in archaeology and had a farm nearby, for help in deciphering the strange language.
He was attached to the Lucknow Archaeology Department as one of its leading members, I am not aware of his exact post title, and had also been searching and excavating across the border in India looking for Buddhas birthplace and the city he lived in.
Being an expert in this field Mr Fuhrer immediately identified the language and what it said - That the pillar marked the spot where Lord Buddha was born.
The articles and letters to Mr Fuhrer make very interesting reading, they have been dug up from rooms that have been dust covered and with dark interiors, and then have been compiled and published in a book in Nepal, by Harihar Raj Joshi and his wife ) Harihar Raj Joshi After many years of governing Palpa, Khadga Shamsher finally settled in present day Sagar, Madhya Pradesh in India for rest of his life.
[citation needed] His eldest daughter Ganga Kumari Devi was married to Raja Dev Jang Bahadur Singh of Bajhang.
[citation needed] One of his daughter Thakurani Chuda Devyashwari Devi was married to Thakur Mahendra Singh of Sagar; whose children was Vijaya Raje Scindia who went on to become Queen of Gwalior State in India.
[citation needed] He had lived in Thapathali Durbar where he performed Bratabandha ceremony for his brother Colonel Sher Shamsher in Falgun 1943 Vikram Samvat.