Stone statues of Lord Narayan in Panchadewal of Narayan Municipality-6 of Dailekh district.
Panchadeval area is located two and a half kilometers north of Dailekh district headquarters Narayan municipality 6, which is connected with Surkhet (capital of Karnali province) is considered to be important from the mythological, religious, historical and archaeological point of view.
Panchadeval, which is believed to have been built during the Dhapara era, lost all the kingdoms to the Kauravas during the Mahabharata war, when the Pandavas spent thirteen years in the forest and one year in secret, hiding in different places and staying only for one night. At the same time, one can hear the mythological story that he came and sat in the Bhuri of Dailekh and that Panchdeval was built as his work in one night.
The temples located in the arms of the Belaspur temple at the highest point of Dailekh Bazar are built in one square. Other temples have been built here and there. In the middle, five big temples are connected. There is a small temple-shaped deval in the middle of the connected devals.
It can be assumed that Panchadeval was named as the base of these connected devals.
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