Dhanusadham
Sign in to saveDhanushadham is a municipality in Dhanusha District in Province No. 2 of south-eastern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Govindapur, Umprempur, Yagyabhumi, Dhanushadham village development committees (VDCs). It is a religious place of Hindu worship in Nepal. It is believed that a part of Shiva Dhanusha (Bow of God Shiva) that was broken by Rama during Sita's swayamvara, is housed. Now there is temple around the remaining of bow and visited by Hindu devotees from all over the world. That's why it is named Dhanushadham.
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Vinony files it under Municipalities in Madhesh Province, Nepal municipalities established in 2014 and Populated places in Dhanusha District.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- धनुषाधाम नगरपालिका
- Region
- मधेश प्रदेश
- Country
- नेपाल
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Dhanusha District
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45
- Official website
- www.dhanushadhammun.gov.np/en
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Dhanushadham is a municipality in Dhanusha District in Province No. 2 of south-eastern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Govindapur, Umprempur, Yagyabhumi, Dhanushadham village development committees (VDCs). It is a religious place of Hindu worship in Nepal. It is believed that a part of Shiva Dhanusha (Bow of God Shiva) that was broken by Rama during Sita's swayamvara, is housed. Now there is temple around the remaining of bow and visited by Hindu devotees from all over the world. That's why it is named Dhanushadham.
Every year there is a festival on the occasion of Makar Sakranti and devotee offers prayer to the Dhanusha temple. The place is 18 km from Janakpur and there is concrete road connecting Dhanushadham to Janakpur. It can be reached by car, motorbike, bus and so on. The travel by bus takes 45 minutes from Janakpur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhanusadham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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