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Nukkuva Jumala
Vishnu has many incrarnations and in Nepal he often apears as Narayan, the creator of all life, the god who reclines on the cosmic sea. From his navel grew a lotus and from the lotus came Brahma, who in turn created the world. Ultimately everuthing comes from Vishnu, and at Budhanilkantha the legend is set in stone.

The 5m-long image of Vishnu as Narayan was probably created in the 7th or 8th century and is the most impressive, if not the most important, Vishnu shrine in teh country. It was sculpted during the Licchavi period, probably somewhere outside the valley and laboriously dragged here.

The sleeping Vishnu image, which lies in a small sunken pond enclosure, attracts a constant stream of pilgrims, and prayers take place 9am every morning.
Vishnu is supposed to sleep through the four monsoon, waking at the end of the mosnsoon.
(Lonely Planet)