The Pashupatinath Temple is a renowned, sacrosanct Hindu sanctuary devoted to Pashupatinath and is situated on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometers north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. This sanctuary is viewed as one of the holy sanctuaries of Hindu confidence .The sanctuary fills in as the seat of the national god, Lord Pashupatinath.This sanctuary complex is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites' rundown Since 1979. This "broad Hindu sanctuary region" is a "sprawling gathering of sanctuaries, ashrams, pictures and engravings raised throughout the hundreds of years along the banks of the hallowed Bagmati waterway" and is incorporated as one of the seven landmark aggregates in UNESCO's assignment of Kathmandu Valley as a social legacy site.[4] One of the real Festivals of the sanctuary is Maha Shivaratri on which day more than 700,000 aficionados visit here.
The twelve Jyotirlinga (in India) are the body and the Jyotirlinga at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu (Nepal) is the head over this body.
The sanctuary is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams (Holy Abodes of Shiva) on the mainland. Kotirudra Samhita, Chapter 11 on the Shivalingas of the North, in Shiva Purana says this Shivalinga as the bestower of all desires
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