Sirutar ( ne, सिरुटार) is a town located in Bhaktapur District . It comes under Suryabinayak Municipality. Sirutar is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares ...

and is situated in ward 1 of Suryabinayak Municipality in

Bhaktapur District Bhaktapur district ( ne, भक्तपुर जिल्ला; Nepal Bhasa : ख्वप देश (जिल्ला) located in the eastern part of Kathmandu valley, is the smallest district among the seventy-seven districts of Nep ...

in Province no 3 of central

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

. At the time of the

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...

it had a population of 4,598 in it. Sirutar extends from East to west in the Southern territory of Bhaktapur district. This town resembles "P" shape of the English alphabet. It is almost 4 km from Bhaktapur nagar and is 9 km from the Kathmandu city. Sirutar is situated about 1,300 meters above the sea level. This town lies in between

Bhaktapur , motto = ne, पुर्खले सिर्जेको सम्पत्ती, हाम्रो कला र संस्कृति , lit=Creation of our ancestors, our heritage and culture , image_map ...

and Lalitpur district.

Dadhikot Dadhikot ( ne, दधिकोट) is a village and Village Development Committee in Bhaktapur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by ...

lies in the east of this, Balkot and Tikathali in the west,

and Balkot in the North, and Lamatar,

Lubhu Lubhu (Nepal Bhasa: लुभू) is a place that is part of Mahalaxmi Municipality in Bagmati Province of central Nepal. Lubhu is a sub-urban Newar place situated seven kilometers east of Kathmandu in northern part of Lalitpur, Nepal. Etymology ...

and Tikathali in the South. The name "Sirutar" came from two names in Nepali – "

Siru ''Siru'' () is an earthenware steamer used to steam grain or grain flour dishes such as ''tteok'' (rice cakes). Gallery Si-lu (side2).jpg, A Bronze Age ''siru'' See also * List of cooking vessels This is a list of cooking vessels. ...

" meaning a kind of plants with hard stem that grow in dry lands and "tar" meaning a dry land that is suitable for the growth of plants like Siru. That being said, Sirutar is a dry, barren land that does not have proper irrigation and is covered by Siru. An anecdote supports this naming: long time back, this place had thick human settlement compared with the neighboring villages; the lands were also fertile that gave good amount of crops. There was a king's palace with a beautiful garden protected with compounded walls. This place was thus also called Swaga in Newari language, meaning a garden. A group of Newars worked in the palace. Later, the people from this place started migrating for some sudden reasons and the fertility of the lands also diminished. Sati out of anger cursed this place to only let Siru grow. Hence, Siru started to grow here. However, no inscriptions and scriptures are found to prove this anecdote. In winter, the temperature reaches up to 2-10°C and in summer, it reaches up to 21-32°C. Majority of the population in this VDC are Hindu; there are temples of Mahadev, Bhairav, Ganesh, Saraswati, Balkumari, and Devi.

Demographics

Male and female rato

At the time of the 2011 Census of Nepal, 48.2% of the population in Sirutar were Male and 51.8% were female.

References

* Populated places in Bhaktapur District {{Bhaktapur-geo-stub