People on Nepal's street signs

Mahendra of Nepal

40 Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972.         

Prithvi

16 Prithvi, is the Sanskrit name for the Earth, as well as the name of the goddess-personification of it in Hinduism. The goddess Prithvi is an archetypal Mother Goddess, and one of the most important...

Araniko

10 Aniko, Anige or Araniko was one of the key figures in the arts of Nepal and the Yuan dynasty of China, and the artistic exchanges in these areas. He was born in Kathmandu Valley during the reign of...

Mahakali

6 Mahakali is the Hindu goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism, and a Yakshini in both the Svetambara and Digambara traditions of Jainism. She is also known as the...

Bhimakali Temple

5 Bhimakali Temple is a Hindu temple at Sarahan in Himachal Pradesh, India. The temple is dedicated to the goddess Bhimakali, the presiding deity of the rulers of the former Bushahr state. The temple...

The Buddha

5 Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded...

Murti

5 In the Hindu tradition, a murti is a devotional image, such as a statue or icon, of a deity or saint used during puja and/or in other customary forms of actively expressing devotion or reverence –...

Tribhuvan of Nepal

4 Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev was King of Nepal from 1911 until his death in 1955, excluding a brief period of exile between November 1950 and January 1951.

Queen Ratna of Nepal

4 Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah is a member of the Nepalese royal family who was Queen of Nepal from 1955 to 1972 and queen dowager from 1972 to 2008.