Word: bikram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Katmandu courtyard echoing with these priestly chants, TIME's New Delhi correspondent, James Shepherd, last week witnessed the coronation of Nepal's King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva (see THE WORLD). Shepherd first encountered the elaborate ceremonies of the Hindu kingdom in 1956 at the coronation of Birendra's father, Mahendra. The correspondent arrived for that occasion aboard a rickety DC-3 that "slithered low over the Himalayan foothills, searching for the gap in the mountains through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings...
Died. Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 51, King of the Himalayan state of Nepal and the world's only Hindu monarch; of a heart attack; in Bharatpur, Nepal. Though he was a member of Nepal's royal dynasty, Mahendra was kept a palace prisoner for the first 30 years of his life because real power in his country had long since fallen to the aristocratic Rana family. In 1951, Mahendra and his father King Tribhuvan led a popular revolution that ousted the Ranas, and four years later Mahendra succeeded to both the throne and control of the government...
...wedding had to be fit for a future king-and god. The bridegroom was Mahendra's son, Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24. He will not only succeed his father some day as monarch but also, the Nepalese believe, as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The prince's bride, and also his second cousin, was Crown Princess Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, 20, a member of the family that ruled...
Married. Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24, Crown Prince of Nepal (seeThe World...
...invitations, printed in Nepali and English in red ink on heavy dark paper, read: "By Command of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Nepal on the auspicious occasion of the wedding of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Bierenda Bir Bikram Shah Dev with Her Royal Highness Princess Aishwarya Rajyalaxmi Devi, the Chairman of the wedding committee and Chief of the Royal Household Bada Casi Puspa Raj has the honour and pleasure to request the company of-at Narayanhiti Royal Palace...