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Budhanilkantha
Temple, located in Budhanilkantha, Nepal, (Nepali: बुढानीलकंठ मन्दिर) (literal: "Old Blue Throat") is a
Hindu open air temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Budhanilkantha Temple is situated below the Shivapuri Hill
at the northern end of the kathmandu valley and can be identified by a large
reclining statue of Lord Vishnu. The temple's main statue of Budhanilkantha is considered
the largest stone carving in Nepal.
Budhanilkantha temple,
also known as the Narayanthan Temple, is situated in kathmandu. Though the
temple is named Budhanilkantha, its name does not come from the Buddha;
Budhanilkantha stands instead for “Old Blue Throat”. The statue symbolizes Lord
Vishnu, who is regarded as one of the 'Trimurtis', along with Brahma and Shiva.
According to one story, a farmer and his wife once struck a
figure while plowing the field, which caused it to start soaking blood into the
ground. This turned out to be the figure of lost deity of Budhanilkantha, which
was recovered and placed in its present position.
Another legend states that the statue was sculpted and brought
to its current location in Kathmandu during the reign of the seventh-century
monarch Vishnu Gupta,
who controlled the Kathmandu Valley under the Lichchhavi king Bhimarjuna Dev.
The main statue is a black stone structure carved from a single block of black basalt. The statue stands 5 meters tall (around 16.4 feet) and is
positioned in the middle of a recessed pool of water, which is 13 meters (42.65
feet) long. It depicts the deity reclining on the coils of the cosmic serpent Shesha.
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