...an insight view of dharan.

Situated in the middle of the beautiful hillock in Dharan, the holy temple of Dantakali is famous among the Hindus as the place where lie the sacred teeth of the goddess Satidevi, the consort of the great god Mahadev. There is the popular belief that the temple still enshrines the sacred teeth.

Pancha meaning five and Kanya meaning women (virgin), it is the temple of five goddesses Draupadi, Tara, Manju, Kunti and Parvati, Situated 1km. North of Dharan, it is a historical temple supposed to have built by a king of Sen dynasty, Narendra Sen in the 16th century. Dilapidated by the earthquake in 1988, the temple was renovated later.

Religion is firmly embedded in the lives of human being and has remained as the driving force of many of the human activities and at the same time as the central topic of philosophical speculations throughout the ages. Further, religion is responsible for the emergence of value system in human binges. This is more so with Nepal as she is the most important place of Hindu religion in the world and at the same time as the birth place of Lord Buddha. These two religions Hinduism and Buddhism, along with many other religious sects, have played greater role in building the social structure; cultural etiquettes and systems, codes of conduct and the way of life as a whole, in this tiny kingdom.