Ans: Baise Rajya (Nepali: बाइसे राज्यहरू, lit. Chaubisi Rajya (Nepali: चौबीसी राज्य, literally "24 principalities") were sovereign and intermittently allied petty kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, ruled by Khas Rajputs from medieval India, located around the Gandaki River Basin, a major Himalayan tributary of the Ganges.