Emotions run high among the assembled bands…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
While Abhiman Singh hesitates, fighting breaks out in the crowd, and he is wounded.
During the free-for-all that follows, swords and knives are used on all sides to dispatch opponents.
Through some scheme that will never be explained adequately, the only leader with organized bodies of troops in the kot area is Jang Bahadur, whose troops suppress the fighting, killing many of his opponents in the process.
When the struggle subsides, the courtyard is strewn with the bodies of dozens of leading nobles and an unknown number of their followers—the cream of the Nepalese aristocracy.
The Pande and Thapa families in particular are devastated during this slaughter.
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