Budhanilkantha Temple, Kathmandu Nepal).
Script,Voice & Produced by Dr. Ajay Kumar Ojha
Budhanilkantha Temple is located at the base of Shivapuri Hill within the Kathmandu valley . It is also known as mystical Budhanilkantha temple which is around nine kilometer away from the main city .Literal meaning of Budhanilkantha is "Old Blue Throat". It is a deity of Lord Vishnu lying on Ananta Sesa, in the cosmic ocean. Lord Vishnu is about five meter long and lying in a thirteen meter long tank, as if floating with his legs crossed with his sleeping body resting on the coils of Ananta and his eleven hooded head. It is believed that the deity was carved in the fifth century during the Licchavi period.
Hindus can walk down the steps and touch his feet, but foreigners cannot walk and touch. It is with the sacredness of this particular god that a deep seated belief was created by King Pratap Malla through a prophetic dream. It was his strong belief and fear that should the King of Nepal visit the Budhanilkantha temple, death would be threatening immediately to fall upon his departure.
The basic festival of the year is when Lord Vishnu who sleeps on the cosmic ocean during Chaturmasya periods wakes up on the Haribodhini Ekadashi day in late October or early November . Thousands of Hindus throng that day to celebrate the festival.
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