Danchhi डाँछी | |
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Village of Kageshwari-Manohara Municipality | |
Nickname(s): Thali, Danchhi | |
Coordinates: 27°44′N85°25′E / 27.73°N 85.41°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | No. 3 |
District | Kathmandu |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
• Member of Parliament | Madhav Kumar Nepal |
• Mayor | Krishna Hari Thapa |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 11,246 |
Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
Postal code | 44600 |
Area code | 01 |
Website | https://www.kageshworimanoharamun.gov.np/en |
Danchhi is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Kageshwari-Manohara Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, it had a population of 11,246 and had 2,593 households in it. [1] Danchhi is now included in Kageswori Manohara Municipality. Danchhi/Thali is bounded by Bagmati and Manohara river. The major places include Thali/थली, Nayapati, Bhadrawas, Hariyalinagar, Dumakhal, and Gajarkot. The major government schools are Shree Sahid Aadarsha Uchha MaVi, Shree Kanti Bhairab MaVi, and Shree Chaulanarayan PraVi. Private schools include Miniland English High School, Mount Everest Secondary School, Pragya Sadan School, Alpine Academy, and Hindu Vidhya Peeth.[ citation needed ]
Kathmandu valley outer ringroad will pass through this place.
“Daan” means offering, donation, or charity. “Chhi/Chi” may be a toponymic suffix denoting place or settlement. Therefore, Daanchhi could be interpreted as “the place of offerings” or “the village of charity.”
Daan (दान) means “gift, donation, offering” and comes from Sanskrit दान (dāna) meaning “act of giving, alms, donation. -chhi / -chi (छि / ची) is likely a local or regional suffix for place names, possibly of Tibeto-Burman substrate origin, adapted into Nepali toponymy.
The toponym Daanchhi thus probably means “settlement of giving/offering,” combining a Sanskrit lexical root with a local place-forming suffix.