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she faced. Her life history is an inspiring example for Nepalese women to move ahead
on the path of truth. Nepalese women inspired from her boldness, wisdom, tolerance
capacity, virtuous and dignified lifestyle. She is also known for her dedication, loyalty
and purity.

3. Gautam Buddha

Siddhartha Gautam popularly known as Gautam Buddha
was the founder of Buddhism. He was born in the Shakya dynasty.
His father was Suddhodhan and mother was Mayadevi. When
he felt stress and sorrow from material life, he left everyone and
everything of luxury to seek truth. After a long time with difficult
meditation, he got enlightenment. He taught eight fold paths,
justice, non-violence and peace to the people. The eightfold paths
in Buddhism include:
i. Right Action iii. Right Belief iii. Right Conduct

iv. Right Desire v. Right Meditation vi. Right Occupation
vii. Right Speech, and viii. Right Thought
He became a prominent personality of global peace and is known as the light of Asia.
The birth place of Gautam Buddha is located in Nepal. So the country became more
popular because of such personality.

4. Amshuverma

Amshuverma was a famous Lichchhavi king. He was a
learned king. He wrote a grammar book in Sanskrit named
“Sabdavidya”. A Chinese traveller Huen Chang mentioned his
wisdom in his traveller’s diary. He wrote that Amshuverma was
a great scholar who loved to search a new paradigm of knowledge.
The palace called Kailashkut Bhawan was built in pagoda style for
administrative purpose. It had a great importance in the history of
architecture. He established warm relationship with China, India
and Tibet and saved the country from foreign invasion. During
his reign art, architecture, language and literature were fully developed. It is mainly
because of great contribution of Amshuverma, the Lichchhavi
period is known as “the Golden Period”.

5. King Ram Shah

Ram Shah was the king of Gorkha. He brought reforms
in economy, society, law and administration. The new system of
measurement was introduced to improve trade. He introduced
a standard system of weight, scale and measurement. Mana,
Paathi, Dharni, Dhak, Taraju, etc. were introduced to his regime.
He fixed the rate of interest according to the production of the
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