The shortest distance between the eastern hills of Sindhuli and the central districts of Terai is via the highway Banepa-Sindhuli-Bardivas (BP), which links the capital from Kathmandu to the regular highway.
Not only is the Savari a regular commuter link, for those traveling from the eastern district of Nepal to the capital and from the capital to the eastern district, but there is also an equal amount of pressure on this highway.
A shocking sight causes them to pause for the old and new driver and passenger arriving at Vistavir under the BP highway. A small temple of Setidev built of the carved wall and hung on the wall a thousand more mirrors.
Where Setidevi Miko is built among the thousands of Ayanas This place is close to Sunkosi village of Sindhuli 5 Mulkot, which is linked with the spirit of divine power and the spirit of safe travel.
Visitors might wonder why they have put the temple and the mirror. Locals say the reason for setting up Setidevi’s temple in the middle of Rithivir’s Ainaina is brilliant and terrifying. It is the same location where a passenger was killed in an accident when a commuter bus hit the Sunkoshi River on May 2. Five people died on the spot when a passenger dropped to Sunkoshi on October 5, moving from Sindhuli to Kathmandu.
Three years later, when another bus crashed on the same spot on October 2 two people died on the spot. In a jeep accident at Rittevir on August 1, three people were killed. Since then, the tragedy has claimed dozens of lives. Locals frightened by a road accident are more fearful of the frequent incidents for the first time, says Nir Prasad Acharya, a priest at the temple of Setidevi.
According to Acharya’s priest, the week broke out in fear of Sindhuli’s then Chief District Officer, Jitendra Bhandari, who began to scold and molest local children, teens, and even elderly people who witnessed the incident.
I am Setidevi, showing a woman jumping on a stone in Sunkoshi with the deceased’s family, I began to enjoy the people after destroying the road construction at my house,’ Acharya remembers the incident,’ I only do good by enabling me to build a temple on the road. He remembers that after the incident after the temple was built on a wall, the Japanese government started to offer mirrors and worship.
According to Manoj Shrestha, chairman of the Setidevi Temple Management Committee, the group of Hajma’s Japanese company technicians who sacrificed Boka to Setidevi after the incident took place following unforeseen incidents such as falling off the excavator and falling down while constructing the road at Rithbhir. “After such a horrible event, Setidevi’s temple was set up on everyone’s initiative,” Shrestha said.
