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Pashupatinath
Temple ( Kathmandu )
The temple of Pashupatinath is Nepal's most scared Hindu shrines and one
of the subcontinent's greatest Shiva sites, a sprawling collection of
temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries
along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river.
The richly- ornamented pagoda, houses the sacred linga or phallic symbol
of Lord Shiva.
Chronicles indicate the temlple's existence prior to 400 A.D, but a
shrine may have stood here nearly 1000 years before that. Legend says
that Shiva once took the form of an antelope and sported unkown in the
forest on Bagmati river's east bank. The gods later caught up with him ,
and grabbing him by the horn, forced him to resume his divine form. The
broken horn was worshipped as a linga and overtime was buried and lost.
Centuries later an astonished herdsmen found one of his cows showering
the earth with milk. Digging deep at the site, he discovered the divine
linga of Pashupatinath
The temple complex has been renovated and improved over the centuries.
Entrance to the shrine is only restricted to Hindus, however, one can
still get the good view of the sacred temple from vantage points across
Bagmati river. Across the river, one can also visit the temple of
Guhyeshwori and a classic 6th century ekmukhi "one-faced"
linga of Shiva.
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