Budhanilkantha Temple

Budhanilkantha Temple, situated in Budhanilkantha, Nepal, (Nepali: बुढानीलकंठ मन्दिर) (literal: "Old Blue Throat") may be a Hindu outside temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Budhanilkantha Temple is found at the bottom of the Shivapuri Hill and might be known by an outsized reclining sculpture of Lord Vishnu. The temple's main sculpture of Budhanilkantha is taken into account the biggest stone carving in Nepal.
Budhanilkantha temple, conjointly referred to as the Narayanthan Temple which is located on the southern facet of Katmandu. although the temple is known as Budhanilkantha, its name doesn't come back from the Buddha; Budhanilkantha stands instead for “Old Blue Throat”. The sculpture symbolizes Lord Vishnu, UN agency is thought to be one in all the 'Trimurtis', together with Brahma and Shiva.
The main sculpture may be a black stone structure lapidarian from one block of black volcanic rock. The sculpture stands five meters tall (around sixteen.4 feet) and is positioned within the middle of a recessed pool of water, that is thirteen meters (42.65 feet) long. It depicts the god reclining on the coils of the cosmic serpent Shesha.
According to one story, a farmer and his married woman once smitten a figure whereas tilling the sphere, that caused it to start out soaking blood into the bottom. This clad to be the figure of lost god of Budhanilkantha, that was recovered and placed in its gift position.


Another legend states that the sculpture was carved  and dropped at its current location in Katmandu throughout the reign of the seventh-century monarch Vishnu Gupta, UN agency controlled the Katmandu vale underneath the Lichchhavi king Bhimarjuna Dev.
The Budhanilkantha Temple has become the positioning wherever Haribondhini Ekadashi Mela takes place on the eleventh day of the Hindu month of Kartika . Attended by thousands of pilgrims, it's the temple's principal pageant in celebration of the arousal of Lord Vishnu from his long sleep.
A legend states that King Pratap Malla (1641–1674) had a prefigurative vision. This vision resulted in him basic cognitive process that kings of Nepal would die if they visited the Budhanilkantha Temple.