Chapali Bhadrakali

Chapali Bhadrakali चपली भद्रकाली
Village of Budanilkantha Municipality
Chapali Bhadrakali Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°46′48″N85°22′48″E / 27.78000°N 85.38000°E / 27.78000; 85.38000
Country	Nepal
Province	No. 3
District	Kathmandu District
Population  (2011)
• Total	10,827
• Religions	Hindu
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Chapali Bhadrakali is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Budanilkantha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 10,827 and had 2,574 households in it. ^[1]

Toponymy

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Etymology

“Chapali” means agile, active, or moving. “Bhadrakali” is a form of the goddess Kali: “Bhadra” means auspicious or gentle, and “Kali” symbolizes power and destruction. The place was named after the temple of the goddess Bhadrakali located there.

Chapali (चपली) means “agile, lively” and comes from Sanskrit चपल (capala) meaning “restless, quick, energetic. Bhadrakali (भद्रकाली) is a compound of भद्र (bhadra) meaning “auspicious, kind, noble, virtuous, refined” and काली (kālī) meaning “the dark one,” a fierce form of the goddess Durga.

The toponym reflects both descriptive geography (possibly a lively or flowing area) and religious identity, centered on the worship of a powerful female deity. ^[2]

References

1. "National Population and Housing Census 2011" (PDF). Government of Nepal, National Planning Commission Secretariat, Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
2. Sthaan Naam Kosh.