A Newar pundit who started the building of the Mahabauddha temple in Lalitpur. Harihar Raj Joshi, Brian Houghton Hodgson: The Unsung Story, contained in: David M. Waterhouse, ed., The Origins of Himalayan Studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling 1820-1858, Routledge Curzon (London 2004), pp. 39-48, at p. 41.
