Kashinath Tamot is an expert of Classical Newari involved in freelance research, notably in research on Kumari, Nepalmandal and Nepal Samvat, and as the chief compiler of the Classical Newari Dictionary published in 2000 CE. He is also the founder of the movement of Nepālamaṇḍala as Newar Identity. While he was a part of the Nepal German Manuscript Cataloguing Project, his hundreds of articles in Nepalbhasa, Khasbhasa and English have been published in various journals and magazines. He retired as Reader from the Central Department of Nepalbhasa, TU.

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