A couple of curious Dutch tourists join a crowd of onlookers watching local workmen struggle to reinstate a statue on its pedestal in front of the main Narayan temple.
One night last month, the gold-plated statue of Bhupatendra Malla and two other images disappeared from the temple courtyard.
The statue of Bhupatendra Malla was found the next day by a cowherd, partially buried in a forest about a kilometre away, and was reinstated this week. The two other images have not been recovered.
Directed by the temple priests, the workmen weld and cement the statue to its moorings, after which they attach iron bars all around it, replacing the iron lattice window around the almost 300-year-old statue of Bhupatendra Malla and his queen.
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