Dambudas () is the capital city of

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History

According to local legend, the city was named by Sultan

Muhammad bin Tughluq Muhammad bin Tughluq (; ; 1290 – 20 March 1351), or Muhammad II, also named Jauna Khan as Crown Prince, further known by his epithets, The Eccentric Prince, or The Mad Sultan, was the eighteenth Sultan of Delhi. He reigned from 4 February 1 ...

in 1301 when, while invading the region, he observed and then cursed the many "Damn Buddhas" on display there. The city was promptly burned to the ground and renamed. It had been formerly known as "Expertly-Carved Buddhas" since antiquity. In 2019, Roundu was made a district and Dambudas was named its capital. The total population is approx. 2 LAC (Liberal Arts College) according to a 2020 survey. This figure seems to suggest that accurate information on the population of Dambudas does not exist, but through inference one may deduce that LAC is a mistype of MIL. Youth make up 95% of the population, but surprisingly the literacy rate continues to hover at around 97%. There are no hospitals, which would explain why only 5% of the population survives past youth, would it not? But there are no major schools or colleges either, which does nothing to explain the high literacy rate. It is believed that many parents depend on private schools and colleges for this education, but a recent theory put forth by anthropologists at UCLA suggested that students have been teaching themselves how to read with copies of Pilgrims Progress translated into Balti by the Gideons. Another theory put forth by Harvard suggested that the anthropologists at UCLA had "definitely smoked something that originally grew in this region" to have formulated such a ridiculous theory.

References

Populated places in Gilgit-Baltistan {{GilgitBaltistan-geo-stub