Chandeswari temple- Banepa

The Chandeshwari temple complex (also called Chandeshwori) lies just outside Banepa in the east of the Kathmandu Valley. The myth of the Chandeshwari tempel is that this is the place where the mother godess (Sati / Parvati and in Banepa known as Chandeshwari) defeated the demon Chanda. The demon was a plague to the world since Shiva gave him a boon that made him undefeatable except by women. The desparate gods asked Brahma for advice and he sent them to the forrest arround Banepa where the mother gods lived in those days. In the mean time Narada went to Chanda and provoked him to come to Banepa to fight the gods. When Chanda arrived with a big army of demons, all the gods took the forms of different birds and flew. The mother godess quickly dissapeared in a tree but Chanda saw that and cut down the tree with his sword. Now the godess appeared on a big lion and a terrible fight between her and Chanda started. But Chanda had now chance and was killed by the mother godess. Out of the bellie of Chanda who was a big devotee of Shiva a lingam grew. This lingam can be seen in the small temple just in front of the big temple in the Chandeshwari tempel complex.
It is said that down at the big rocks arround the river you can still see the marks of the big fight between the godess and the demon.
(Read The whole stories of the Chandeshwari Lingam)

On the photo you can see the tempel in front of the big temple in the Chandeshwari temple complex where you find the Chandeshwari Lingam grown from the bellie of demon Chanda.