Dahachok

Dahachok दहचोक
Village of Chandragiri Municipality
Dahachowk
Dahachok Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°42′39″N85°13′42″E / 27.71083°N 85.22833°E / 27.71083; 85.22833
Country	Nepal
Province	No. 3
District	Kathmandu District
Population  (2011)
• Total	4,036
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Dahachok is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 4,036. ^[1] It is located in the west of Kathmandu .

Toponymy

Language origin

• Linguistic family: Indoeuropean
• Language: Sanskrit

Etymology

“Daha” means lake or pond. “Chok” means square, open space, or village/market center. Therefore, Dahachok can be interpreted as “the square by the pond” or “the open space near the lake.”

Daha (दह) means “lake, pond, reservoir” and comes from Sanskrit दह (daha) meaning “pond, pool, reservoir.” Chok (चोक) means “square, marketplace, central place, yard, plaza, quadrangle, courtyard” and comes from Sanskrit चतुष्क (catuṣka) meaning “crossing, junction,” in Nepali used as “plaza, open center.”

The toponym Dahachok thus combines a geographical feature (pond/lake) with a settlement feature (plaza/marketplace), giving the meaning “the square by the pond.”

Kalu Pande memorial

The burial ground on hill top of Kaji Kalu Pande is a popular hiking spot. It lies in Chandragiri, western outskirts of Kathmandu from where Gorkha can be seen. ^[2]

Gallery

• 
  Memorial where Kalu Pande was assassinated in 1814 B.S.
• 
  Kaji Kalu Pande Statue at Samadhisthal, Dahachowk

References

1. "VDC Municipality.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
2. "Kalu Pandey Burial Ground being popular among Kathmandu hikers". thehimalayantimes.com. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018.