Bhrakune Daha Barah Kshetra

This is an ancient natural lake. The lake and Barah deity are complimentary to each other. The place has religious as well as natural significance. Though it is quite natural to get the water collected in the area surrounded by hills but there are so many annals related to the origin of this lake.

According to one the stories some of the cowherds used to build temporary sheds to stay over the place along with their cattle where the lake is now located during the winter season. One day While the cowherds were camping their elderly chief dreamt of an old man suggesting them to leave the place since there was going to be a large lake around the place where they were camping. The chief related the story of his dream to his fellow cowherds and expressed his intention to leave the place. But since the other cowherds, however, were reluctant to accept the fact decided to stay there. The chief took his cattle and shifted to one of the top hills. During the night it suddenly started down pouring with storms.  There was a lake the next day exactly like the old man in the dream of the chief’s dream. Nothing was heard about the cowherds and cattle who had decided to stay at the place.

The priests of this temple are still from Magar community. There is a village named and river Sewar by Barah kshetra. In Magar Kham language a person conducting rituals and worships is called ‘Seware’. According to Bam Kumari Budha, researcher of Magar Kham language, the name Sewar is derived from the very word Seware. The Magar communities of the surrounded have contributed a lot for the care and conduct of the temple since its origination.

Bahra Kune Daha has extended in the area of five hectares. The lake is believed to have emerged at about 1991/92 B.S. Later the siltation process from the feeder streams caused the contraction of the lake. Now the lake is only limited to the eastern part of the wide area. The process of broadening the lake, reinventing the twelve corners and construction of a dam have completed with the support of Ghorahi municipality and District Development committee Dang.

Bahrakune Barah Kshetra is one of the important religious destinations of mid-western region. There is the custom or tradition of making offering of lamb at the southern part of the lake. People come here to cleanse or bathe in the lake and worship lord Barah. The process is believed to be the way of salvation. Hundreds of pilgrims arrive here from Mangsir to Magh (November to January). On the last day of Paush and 1^st day of Magh a large fair is organized here. At that time pilgrims from the hilly parts of Nepal as well as from India arrive here. There is a historical place called Maulakot to the northern top and to the west there is a wetland area called Jyamire Daha. Maulakot is significant for trekking and Jyamire Daha is for the study of diversity of flora and fauna.