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Pashupatinath Temple - Shiva's Home in Kathmandu Valley

The Pashupatinath temple in the east of Kathmandu has been a religious site for both Hindus and Buddhists for maybe over 2000 years. Daily thousends of pilgrims visit Pashupatinath, with a top day on Maha Shivaratri when hunderds of thousends of pilgrims come to pay their tribute to Shiva. The Pashupatinath temple complex is one of the Unesco world heritage sites of the Kathmandu Valley.

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How Shiva settled as Pashupatinath in Kathmandu Valley

This story tells the myth of the Pashupatinath temple and explains how Shiva and Parvati ended up in the Shlesmantaka forrest  (Kathmandu Valley in Nepal) and setteld there as deers. 

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