Maheshwar Panta or Manohar Pant (Nepali: महेश्वर पन्त) was the teacher and later Army Chief of Gorkha King Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723–1775 AD). With Bhanu Aryal, he trained King Prithvi Narayan.^{[citation needed]} When Biraj Thapa Magar failed to attack Nuwakot, he with Kalu Pandey was sent to attack Nuwakot. Both Panta and Pandey failed respectively,^[1] and Prithvi Narayan Shah began training.^{[citation needed]}