Dhanushadham

Dhanushadham is a municipality in Dhanusha District in the south-east of Nepal, set up on 18 May 2014 by merging the village development committees of Govindapur, Umprempur, Yagyabhumi and Dhanushadham. It is a place of Hindu worship: tradition holds that a piece of the bow of Shiva, broken by Rama at Sita's swayamvara, is kept here, and a temple stands around the remains of the bow, which is the source of the name. A festival is held every year at Makar Sankranti. The place lies 18 kilometres from Janakpur and is linked to it by a concrete road. At the 1991 census the area had 6,450 people.