Editing Sikkim (section)

== Toponymy ==
The name ''Sikkim'' is believed to be a combination of the [[Limbu language|Limbu]] words ''su'' "new" and ''khyim'' "palace" or "house".<ref>Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia By James Minahan, 2012</ref> The [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]] name for Sikkim is ''Drenjong'' (Wylie-transliteration: ''bras ljongs''), which means "valley of [[rice]]",<ref name="Bell25">{{Cite book | title = Portrait of a Dalai Lama: the life and times of the great thirteenth | last = Bell | first = Charles Alfred | year = 1987 | publisher = Wisdom Publications | isbn = 978-0-86171-055-3 | page = 25 }}</ref> while the [[Bhutia]]s call it ''[[Beyul]] Demazong'', which means "the hidden valley of rice".<ref name="sikkimtourismintro" /> According to folklore, after establishing Rabdentse as his new capital, Bhutia king [[Tensung Namgyal]] built a palace and asked his Limbu Queen to name it. The [[Lepcha people]], the original inhabitants of Sikkim, called it ''Nye-mae-el'', meaning "paradise".<ref name="sikkimtourismintro">{{Cite web | title = Welcome to Sikkim – General Information | publisher = Sikkim Tourism, Government of Sikkim | url = http://www.sikkimtourism.travel/Webforms/General/Introduction.aspx | access-date = 16 May 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090120103953/http://sikkimtourism.travel/WebForms/General/Introduction.aspx | archive-date = 20 January 2009 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> In historical [[Indian literature]], Sikkim is known as ''Indrakil'', the garden of the [[war god]] [[Indra]].<ref>{{Cite book | title = Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2 | last = Datta | first = Amaresh | orig-year = 1988 | year = 2006 | publisher = Sahitya Akademi | isbn = 978-81-260-1194-0 | page = 1739 }}</ref>