Kosh Bhanjyang () is a market settlement located on a hilly pass between Katunje and Mulkharka of

Okhaldhunga District Okhaldhunga District () is one of 14 districts of Koshi Province in eastern Nepal. The district, with the municipality of Okhaldhunga as its district headquarters, covers an area of and had a population of 156,702 in 2001 and 147,984 in 2011.

. Under present local level structure it is located between Ward No 5 and 9 of Sunkoshi Rural Municipality,

History

The settlement lies on the old foot trail to eastern Nepal from Kathmandu Valley passing from Kavre, crossing Roshi River, Nepalthok,

Manthali, Ramechhap Manthali is a municipality and the headquarters of Ramechhap District in Bagmati Province, Nepal. It was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former village development committees Old-Manthali, Bhatauli, Chisapani, Kathjor, Bhaluw ...

, Sanghutar, Ghodakhori all the way to

Taplejung District Taplejung District ( ) is one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal and one of the 14 districts of Koshi Province. It is located deep in the Himalayas in Eastern Nepal with བོད to the north across the Himalayas. Taplejung is the third lar ...

. This trail was used by

King Mahendra Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (; 11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972. He led the 1960 Nepal coup d'état, 1960 coup d'état, in which he dismissed the government, jailed other political ...

during his visit to eastern Nepal in 2013 B.S 956 AD The area was not inhabited until that period. There is a marker stone in the area which mentions the area to be exactly 38 ''kosh'' from

Hanuman Dhoka Hanuman Dhoka () is a complex of structures with the Royal Palace of the Malla kings and also of the Shah dynasty in the Durbar Square of central Kathmandu, Nepal.The Hanuman Dhoka Palace (Hanuman Dhoka Darbar in Nepali) gets its name from the ...

. The name of the area derives from this marker stone. In 2017, the marker stone as displaced during road expansion. Besides the marker stone there used to be a public rest house called "Dhoke Pati".

References

{{Okhaldhunga District Populated places in Okhaldhunga District