karnali is an old civilization in nepal and is connected with the karnali river archaeological sites found in jumla, surkhet and dailekh infer that the area was part of the old khasa kingdom which was established during the 11th century. the capital of the khas kingdom was sinja in present day jumla district. the kingdom expanded to a great extent in the 13th and 14th century; expanding to garhwal in the west, mansarowar and guge regions of tibet in the north, gorkha-nuwakot regions in the east and kapilvastu with large areas of terai in the south. after the late 14th century, the khas empire collapsed and was divided into the baise rajya (22 principalities) in karnali-bheri region.