Guru Mapa

On the right side of the Kichandra Bahal courtyard are the four brass plaques mounted on the upper stores wall. The one known as GuruMapa. According to popular belief the man-eating Guru Mapa once dwelt in the monastery courtyard, his gargantuan appetite for little children causing their disappearance in large numbers. The inhabitants begged him to remove himself to Tundikhel, promising the annual sacrifice of a buffalo. The pact is kept to this day, every year a buffalo being offered to Guru Mapa in Tundikhel. The man-eater is pictured in embossed copper-work on the north wall; one plaque shows him devouring a child with relish, another consuming buffalo meat.