Manakamana Temple, Sankhuwasabha

Sthala katha — the traditional account

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.

A farmer ploughing his field is said to have struck a stone that oozed milk and blood, which the devotee Lakhan Thapa read as the return of a seventeenth-century queen of Gorkha who had committed sati after her husband's death.