Khatmandu

Khatmandu, the capital of Nepal, stretches for about a mile north from the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers. It contains a great number of temples, many in pagoda shape, with roofs of brass, and others domed; but the houses are in general mean, their court-yards filled with rubbish-heaps, and the streets are narrow and filthy in the extreme. The principal building is the immense ugly palace of the Maliaraja; close to its modern darbār, or reception-room, is the large military council-chamber, the Kót, where in 1846 most of the chief men of the state were massacred. The population is about 50,000.