छेपु Chhepuuu story

          Long ago, the Kathmandu Valley was only huge lake inhabited by the countless number of aquatic animals. The majority of them were the norga (serpents). So this valley was known as Naga Daha meaning the 'Home of the Serpents'. One day Manjushree  (a Buddhist god from china) came to visit this valley. He liked the valley so much that he wanted to make a beautiful town out of it. With this intention he immediately cut through the southera hill of the valley with one stroke of his legendary sword (     chandrahara  ) and drained off the water. This compelled all the inhabitants of the lake to leave, as they could not do anything against the almighty Manjushree.
        But a creature called Chhepu stayed put. When by his logic power Manjushree sensed that there was someone still hidden somewhere under the remnant of the lake, he commanded the latter to leave the water instantly. Chhepy was terrified when he saw that he could not go against the power of Manjushree. So he said he would leave the lake if Manjushree would promise out to look at his horrible feature when he moved out of the lake. According to the promise Manjushree closed his eyes and Chhepu prepared to come out of the water. As the fear-stricken creature pused half of his ugly body above the surface. Manjushree could not help but open his eyes stealthily,out of curiositym.
          When Chhepu saw Manjushree open his eyes, he got so upset that he quickly dived back deep under the water to hide himself again. Manjushree, ashamed of breaking his promise, soon negotiated with Chhepu assuring him that he would never bother again to see the lower half of   his body (which has since not been seen by anyone). He also promised that he would allow him to occupy a very significant place in the holy temples of Nepal (he was going to built up soon in the valley) and remain there half-hidden forever.
    This story seems to explain a lot about our architectural tradition of showing only half of Chhepu's body above the tympanums of the temple of doorways.

there are 3 brothers of Chhepu . the oldest one is Cheepu wherest the second oldest is Bajijayanti and the smalles one is Garuda .

They are the sons of sun.Bajijayanti is vegeterian whereas two brother eat snakes.

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