Prithvi Narayan Shah, The Great, was born in 1723, in the ninth generation of a line of Hindu princes of Gorkha, a hill town whose lands adjoined those of Kathmandu to the east.
Prithvi Narayan Shah was born n the eighth generation of a line of Hindu princes. 
mnli hypothesis: Prithvi Narayan Shah was born n the eighth generation of a line of Hindu princes.  premise: Prithvi Narayan Shah, The Great, was born in 1723, in the ninth generation of a line of Hindu princes of Gorkha, a hill town whose lands adjoined those of Kathmandu to the east.