The Pashupatinath Temple is a well known, holy Hindu sanctuary committed to Pashupatinath and is situated on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometers north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Pashupatinath, or Pashupati, is a Hindu sanctuary on the banks of the Bagmati River in Deopatan, a town 3 km northwest of Kathmandu. The twelve Jyotirlinga (in India) are the body and the Jyotirlinga at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu (Nepal) is the head over this body. The sanctuary is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams (Holy Abodes of Shiva) on the mainland. Kotirudra Samhita, Chapter 11 on the Shivalingas of the North, in Shiva Purana specifies this Shivalinga as the bestower of all desires.
