Dhanusha

Janakpur, Sita's city of temples and ponds, and Dhanushadham where Ram's broken bow is said to have fallen.

Places in Dhanusha

A white marble palace-temple of 1910 dedicated to Sita, built where her image is said to have been found.

Sacred ponds scattered through the city, where evening aarti and Chhath bring thousands to the ghats.

A forest shrine where a fragment of Shiva's bow, broken by Ram to win Sita, is said to have fallen.

Watch women artists paint the bright, line-filled Mithila style that once decorated only village walls.

Nepal's only passenger railway, relaunched in 2022, running across the Mithila plains to the Indian border.