The temple of Pashupatinath is Nepal's most scared Hindu shrines
and  one  of  the  subcontinent's  greatest  Shiva  sites , a sprawling 
collection  of  temples , a shrams, images and inscriptions raised over 
the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river. 

     Chronicles indicate the temlple's existence prior to 400 A.D,but a
shrine  may  have stood here nearly 1000 years before that. Legend says 
that  Shiva once took the form of an antelope and sported unkown in the 
forest on  Bagmati river's east bank. The gods later caught up with him 
and  grabbing him by the horn, forced him to resume his divine form.The 
broken  horn was worshipped as a linga and overtime was buried and lost.
Centuries  later an astonished herdsmen found one of his cows showering 
the earth with milk. Digging deep at the site, he discovered the divine
linga of Pashupatinath