Chapali Bhadrakali

Chapali Bhadrakali is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Budanilkantha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 10,827 and had 2,574 households in it.

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Etymology

“Chapali” means agile, active, or moving. “Bhadrakali” is a form of the goddess Kali: “Bhadra” means auspicious or gentle, and “Kali” symbolizes power and destruction. The place was named after the temple of the goddess Bhadrakali located there.
Chapali means “agile, lively” and comes from Sanskrit चपल meaning “restless, quick, energetic. Bhadrakali is a compound of भद्र meaning “auspicious, kind, noble, virtuous, refined” and काली meaning “the dark one,” a fierce form of the goddess Durga.
The toponym reflects both descriptive geography and religious identity, centered on the worship of a powerful female deity.