Pashupatinath temple is a temple dedicated to god shiva who is also known as Mahadev, Shiva, Pashupati etc. Pashupatinath temple is located in Kathmandu, Nepal. The temple is Pagoda in style. There are four face of Pashupatinath or god Pashupati. Whereas palate is worship which is known as Ishan. The four face of Pashupatinath are as follows:-
There is different story of origin of Pashupatinath but one of the story is very interesting and can be followed by thousand of years. We can also find about god Pashupati in different Puran(scripture) like shiva puran etc. In thousand names of god shiva. We can also find one name of god shiva ‘Pashupati’. Today, we are going to discuss about story which is famous among local as well.
The Story goes like this ‘There was a cow name Kamdhenu. She used to come Pashupati where the shivalinga of Pashupatinath now exist and offer milk everyday. One day the owner of cow (Gopal) also comes back of kamdhenu and come to see where cow go everyday and offer milk. The gopal see the kamdhenu and dig the land. And very light appears from land from which it turns gopal into ashes. The light was very huge and no one can handle the energy of light. All god including god indra pray to god vishnu to control the power of god shiva. The god vishnu establish a shivalinga which has four face. Known as god Pashupati. God vishnu made easy to worship shivalinga for everyone. It is believed that God pashupatinath shivalinga is made up of Paras stone. Which is one of the unique stone. Many kings made the temple of pashupatinath from thousand of years. Many holy saints has taken shelter of pashupatinath from thousand of years. There are many temples around the temple and premises of pashupatinath. All god prayed coming to pashupatinath everyday including god vishnu by bathing at Bagmati river. God shiva appears from God Pashupatinath and boon to all gods. God Pashupatinath is able to provide dharma artha kama moksha meaning the religious value, wealth, happiness and finally salvation. According to Himbwawat khanda. Lord Krishna also came to God Pashupatinath to worship god shiva in dwapar yuga and has talked directly with south face. The shiny of south face is higher than all other face. And also main pujari (main priest) of god pashupatinath worship and pray in south face. There is four priest of god pashupatinath who sit and worship in each face. The adi Shankaracharya has started the worship of god pashupatinath who must qualify the yajur veda and its process and which also have different process.
Some of the temple in pashupatinath
Outside temples or holy temple areas:
Temples opening time
West gate at 4 am morning (summer), all four gates in 9 30 am. Temples closes at 2pm . And west gate open at 4 30 pm. And all four gates open at 6 for night arati and closes at 7pm . In winter it closes soon.
