Bisankhunarayan

Bishankhunarayan[1]
विशंखुनारायण
Village of Godawari Municipality
Bishankhunarayan[4]
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°37′N 85°23′E / 27.61°N 85.39°E / 27.61; 85.39Coordinates: 27°37′N 85°23′E / 27.61°N 85.39°E / 27.61; 85.39
Country    Nepal
Province Province No. 3
District Lalitpur District
Population (1991)
 • Total 3,867
Time zone UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Bisankhunarayan is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Godawari Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3867 in 707 individual households.[5] Bishankhunarayan is historic place because of popular Hindu god Vishnu temple called Bishankhu narayan. Narayan is another name for Lord Vishnu. In the temple there's a small cave too.

Every year tens of thousand pilgrims visit these four temple.

Villages near Bishnankhunarayan include Godawari, Lamatar, Godamchour. Bishankhunarayn vdc has rich water resources as well as big and thick forest.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://wikimapia.org/11888095/Bishankhunarayan-VDC
  2. ↑ http://wikimapia.org/11888095/Bishankhunarayan-VDC
  3. ↑ http://wikimapia.org/11888095/Bishankhunarayan-VDC
  4. ↑ http://wikimapia.org/11888095/Bishankhunarayan-VDC
  5. ↑ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
  6. ↑ http://www.lonelyplanet.com/nepal/bishankhu-narayan
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