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Sunsari, Koshi · 26.8300°, 87.1800°
One of Nepal's oldest shrines, named in the Puranas and the Mahabharata, standing at the Koshi confluence and dedicated to Vishnu in his boar incarnation. Statues found here are over 1,500 years old; the domed temple standing today was rebuilt by Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana after the 1934 earthquake, within a complex of nine temples including shrines to Lakshmi, Panchayan, Guruvarah, Suryavarah, Kokawarah and Nageshwar.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The Varaha story tells that Vishnu, taking the form of a boar, lifted the earth out of the netherworld on his tusk and afterwards rested with Lakshmi at this Himalayan river confluence.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Rana
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