Pasupathinath Temple

The Pasupathinath Temple

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The holiest of all The Pashupathinath Temple where Pashu means living beings, and Pati means master.  In other words Pashupati is the master of the all living beings of the universe.  This is how Lord Pashupati is eulogized in the Vedas, Upanishad and other religious books.

The Shivalinga in the Temple is differrent one from the the rest we find in other shiva temples in the world. Here you can find shivalinga with four faces of Shiva himself. I have been told all these faces transalates into different names and different dharmas. The face facing to the east is known as Tatpurusha and the one facing to the south is known as Aghora. Similarly, the faces looking west and north are known by the name of Sadhyojata and Vamadeva respectively. These faces are also defined as the symbol of Dharmas and Vedas (the sacred scripts of Hindus).
The images of Vishnu, Surya, Devi, and Ganesh are also placed in the temple comlex.

The temple of Lord Pashupatinath stands in the middle of an open courtyard. It is a square shaped pagoda temple built on a single-tier platform measuring 23.6 meters from the ground. There are gilt doors on the all four sides of the temple. Inside the temple there is a narrow walk engulfing the sanctum from where one can have closer view of Shivalinga.