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Bhedasing

The story of Bhedasing, where the secret acts of the queen and the minister's wife were discovered and a sheep's head turned into stone.

Bhedasing

One night, the king of Patan, going out in disguise to learn the condition of the city, saw the wife of a kaji together with her lover murder the kaji. The next day, as she was about to become a sati, the kajini whispered to the king: "Maharaj, the queen and the minister's wife go at night by tantric arts, climbing a pipal tree, to the far shore of the sea."

When the king hid in the pipal tree at night and watched, the queen and the minister's wife made the tree fly and carried him to a city across the sea. There, at the swayamvara of a princess, the king married her and quietly returned to his own country. The next day the king banished both of them from the country.

After that the king learned the art of parakaya pravesh (transferring one's spirit into another's body) from a siddha who had mastered it. When the king left his body and entered the body of a dog, the treacherous siddha seized the king's own body and became king, and ordered all the dogs in the kingdom to be killed.

The king, moving from the dog into the body of a parrot, went to his new queen across the sea and revealed the whole secret.

The queen summoned the siddha who had become king and, on the pretext of another test, made him enter the body of a sheep. As soon as the siddha became a sheep, the king in parrot form entered his own former body and seized that sheep-formed siddha.

The king returned to Patan with his queen. At Shankhamul that wicked sheep was sacrificed. As the severed sheep's head rolled toward the street of Kathmandu, the tantric chanted mantras and scattered akshata, and the head turned to stone. That historic stone, which looks like a sheep's horn, is called 'Bhedasing' today.

Note: These are traditional Nepali folk tales (kimbadanti), passed down orally through generations. They may or may not reflect actual historical events, but they are told and believed as part of Nepal's cultural heritage.

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