Kasthamandap

Kasthamandap was probably built around the 12th century as a public building for merchants and travelers of the trans Himalayan route between India and Tibet to rest and spend their nights. Locally known as Maru Sattal (Sattal meaning a public shelter), travelers sometimes lived for weeks and months in this building to save themselves from malaria epidemics in Tarai during summer or snowfall in the mountains during winter.

Legend goes, the entire Kasthamandap was rebuilt from the trunk of a single Sal tree gifted by Kalpavriksha.

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