Bhimdhunga is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
and former
Village Development Committee
Village development committee may refer to:
* Village development committee (India)
* Village development committee (Nepal)
A village development committee (; ''gāum̐ vikās samiti'') in Nepal was the lower administrative part of its Mini ...
that is now part of
Nagarjun Municipality
Nagarjun is a municipality in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province of Nepal. It was formed on 2 December 2014 by merging the former VDCs of Bhimdhunga, Ichangu Narayan, Ramkot, Syuchatar and Sitapaila. The office of the municipality is loca ...
in
Province No. 3 of central
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. At the time of the
2011 Nepal census
Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...
it had a population of 2,915 and had 619 houses in it.
Toponymy
Linguistic family
* Linguistic family: Indoeuropean
* Language: Sanskrit
Etymology
“Bhim” is the name of one of the Pandava brothers, regarded as strong and brave. “Dhunga” means stone. According to tradition, the place contains a stone said to have been thrown or moved by Bhim, which is why it is called Bhimdhunga.
Bhim (भीम) is the name of a legendary warrior figure from the ''Mahabharata'', derived from Sanskrit भीम (bhīma) meaning “formidable, mighty, terrifying". Dhunga (ढुंगा) means “stone” and comes from Sanskrit शिला (śilā) or local Nepali term ढुंगा (ḍhuṅgā) meaning “rock/stone".
References
Populated places in Kathmandu District
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