ChillNepal team9 Oct 2026 1 min read
Before the unification of modern Nepal by the Shah kings, Udayapur was under the Sen dynasty's Chaudandi kingdom, whose capital was Chaudandigadhi. The last Chaudandi king, Karna Sen, fled to Bijayapur when the Gorkha army captured the Sen kingdom; the fort fell to the Gorkha Army on 16 July 1773 and its remains can still be seen at Chaudandi. In the modern era the district headquarters stood at Panchawati on the Udayapurgadhi hill until 1972, when it was moved down to Gaighat in the plains.
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