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18-471: The name Dolkha arose from Newar Community. In the classical Nepal Bhasa language "Dol" or "Dwāl" means Thousand, and "Khā" means houses which means "The place that has a thousand houses".. However most agree that it stands for "use and throw". In fact the motto of the people here is: "No bad deed goes unpunished" The Bhimeshwar temple is located in Dolakha Bazar of Bhimeshwar. The main statue of this temple

36-604: A spoken language during the Licchavi period (approximately 400–750 AD). The inscriptions from the Licchavi period includes Newari words. Hence, it indicated that Newari was the common language during Licchavi dynasty although the official use of the period was Sanskrit, but Nepal Bhasa was already in use. The earliest dated stone inscription in Thakuri dynasty is in Newari , dated Nepal Sambat 293 (1173 CE). Classical Nepal Bhasa

54-415: Is God Bhim. Bhimsen, Bhimeshwar, or Bhim of Dolakha is noted as one of the most popular throughout the country. He was the second prince of Panch Pandav and was notably worshipped by the traders or merchandisers as their god. In Dolakha, the roofless temple constitutes the idol of Bhimsen, which is triangular and made of rough stone. The idol in the temple is said to resemble three different gods: Bhimeshwar in

72-581: Is happening or going to happen soon in the country then Bhimsen himself tries to protect his people by warning them through sweating etc. From the point of view of Shree Bhimeshwar Shivapuran, there was a kingdom of Bhima that was blessed by God Brahma at the side of a mountain peak. The people, who lived in the Bhima's kingdom had to live very sorrowful lives from the Bhima and so they prayed to god Shiva to save their lives. Then God Shiva came from Gaurishanker and killed

90-627: The Constitution of Nepal states that the Village Assembly hold all legislative powers of the rural municipality. It consists of the chairperson, deputy chairperson, ward chairpersons and four ward members elected from each of the wards in the rural municipality out of which at least two must be women The members of the Dalit or minority community nominated to the Village Executive is also a member of

108-556: The 19th century. The term is most generally used to describe the form of Nepal Bhasa used in manuscripts and other sources from the Malla dynasty . The antiquity of the Newar language is not known. The Sanskrit stone inscriptions from the Licchavi Dynasty contains frequent use of Tibeto-Burman words, especially for proper nouns like names of person, settlements and rivers, suggesting

126-416: The Village Assembly. Part 17 also includes provisions for a Judicial Committee which is headed by the deputy chairperson and consists of two other members elected by the Village Assembly among themselves. Schedule 8 and Schedule 9 of the constitution deals with powers that the local executive can execute either on its own or concurrently with the federal and the provincial governments . Some authorities

144-1161: The comfort of the pilgrims. The temple is believed to have strong spiritual power and is known to fulfil the prayers of the pilgrims. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census , Dolakha District had a population of 186,557. As their first language , 65.2% spoke Nepali , 15.9% Tamang , 8.0% Thami , 4.5% Sherpa , 2.3% Jirel , 1.9% Newari , 0.9% Sunuwar , 0.3% Magar , 0.2% Maithili , 0.1% Bengali , 0.1% Majhi, 0.1% Surel and 0.1% other languages. Ethnicity/caste: 33.4% were Chhetri , 16.8% Tamang , 9.4% Newar , 9.2% Hill Brahmin , 9.0% Thami , 4.8% Sherpa , 4.3% Kami , 2.4% Jirel , 2.2% Damai /Dholi, 2.2% Sarki , 1.6% Magar , 1.5% Gharti/ Bhujel , 1.0% Sunuwar , 0.7% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.5% Gurung , 0.2% Majhi, 0.2% Thakuri , 0.1% Badi , 0.1% Rai and 0.3% others. Religion: 67.8% were Hindu , 22.3% Buddhist , 8.1% Prakriti , 1.6% Christian and 0.1% others. Literacy: 62.5% could read and write, 3.5% could only read and 33.9% could neither read nor write. The district consists of 9 Municipalities , out of which two are urban municipalities and seven are rural municipalities . These are as follows: Prior to

162-547: The existence of a vernacular Tibeto-Burman language , which is believed to be an early form of the Newar language. The earliest known (dated) document in Nepal Bhasa is called "The Palmleaf from Uku Bahal" which dates back to 1114 AD (235 NS). The language continued growing in the Medieval period, and enjoyed royal patronage. Noted royal writers include Mahindra Malla, Siddhinarsingh Malla, Jagatprakash Malla etc. An example of

180-448: The existing village development committees and announced the establishment of this new local body. It is a sub-unit of a district . There are currently 481 rural municipalities. The village development committee was the previous governing body of villages in Nepal. They were replaced on 10 May 2017 by the rural municipalities which were formed by combining different VDCs. The decision

198-423: The king Bhima . According to history after Bhima' s death, the statue of God at that spot was named - Bhimeshwar (भिमेश्वर). Dolakha is also home to another holy temple - Kalinchowk Bhagawati. It is situated in high mountains at an altitude of about 3842m and the pilgrims are known to walk a long and dangerous route via the mountains to the temple. But, in 2018 the government started a new cable car service for

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216-583: The language used in that period is provided by lines of Mooldevshashidev written by Jagatprakash Malla which verse describes Shiva and the use of a tiger skin as his seat. This language was the official language of Nepal from Licchavi era to Malla era of Nepal.Newar words appeared in Sanskrit inscriptions in the Kathmandu Valley for the first time in the fifth century. The words are names of places, taxes and merchandise indicating that it already existed as

234-518: The morning, Mahadeva during the day and the Narayana in the evening. Local legend has it that ages ago, 12 porters coming from elsewhere stopped at this spot and made three stone stoves to cook rice. After a few minutes, it was noticed that one side of the rice grains was cooked but the other side was raw. When the Porter flipped the cooked side up, the cooked rice became raw again when it came in contact with

252-442: The restructuring of the district, Dolakha consisted of the following municipalities and Village development committees : 27°40′N 86°2′E  /  27.667°N 86.033°E  / 27.667; 86.033 Classical Newar Classical Newar or Classical Nepal Bhasa ( Modern Newar : pulāṃ bhāy , ' old language ' ) also known as Old Newar , is the vernacular and literary form of Nepal Bhasa used prior to

270-550: The triangular-shaped black-stone. One of the porters became very angry and stabbed the stone with "Paneu" (laddle), which cut the stone and out of the cut flowed blood coated with milk. Later they realized that the stone was God Bhim. Worshippers started pouring in to pray to God Bhim. There are many faith-challenging incidents about the Bhimsen of Dolakha. The miraculous things of Bhimsen statue of Dolakha include sweating fluid like drops of warm water. People believe that if any bad incident

288-490: The word "gaunpalika". As defined by Part 17 of the Constitution of Nepal , the rural municipalities are governed by a village executive headed by a chairperson . The village executive consists of the deputy chairperson, ward chairpersons elected from each ward in the rural municipality, and four women members elected from among members of the Village Assembly and two members from the Dalit or other minority communities. Part 18 of

306-503: Was introduced in ISO 639-2 code list in 2004. Gaupalika Executive: Federal Parliament : Judiciary: A gaunpalika ( Nepali : गाउँपालिका , romanized:  Gāum̐pālikā , lit.   ' rural municipality ' Nepali pronunciation: [ɡãũ̯palika] ) is an administrative division in Nepal . The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development dissolved

324-535: Was taken by the cabinet of Nepal after modifications in the report proposed by the Local Level Restructuring Commission. Initially 481 rural municipalities were formed but it was later changed to 481 municipalities. According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development the new bodies were to be called "rural municipality" and not "village council" which was the literal translation of

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