Pachali Ghat
The path forks before reaching the river, but both ways lead to Pachali Ghat and its remarkable collection of Hindu and Buddhist statuary. If you take the right fork, you'll enter an area that's like a primer of the Newar pantheon of gods. Statues set in niches along the righthand wall depict (from right to left) Hanuman, Saraswati, the green and white Taras, Bhairab, Ganesh, a linga/yoni, a standing Vishnu, the Buddha, Ram, Shiva as sadhu, and a flute-playing Krishna. On the left are many more, concluding with depictions of the ten incarnations ( das avatar) of Vishnu: fish, tortoise, the boar Baraha, the man-lion Narasingh, the dwarf Vaman, the Brahman Parasuram, the mythical heroes Ram and Krishna, the Buddha, and finally Kalki, the saviour yet to come. Off to the right, the three-tiered Lakshmishwar Mahadev Mandir occupies a crumbling bahal that's been taken over by a language school. The temple's construction was sponsored by the late-eighteenth-century queen Rajendra Laskhmi Devi Shah, who apparently considered Shiva (Mahadev) her lord ( ishwar).
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