Kathmandu, December 25

An undated statue of national luminary Sankhadhar Sakhwa was found below Paropakar bridge in Kalimati today.

Kathmandu Metropolitan City's municipal police had seen the statue inside a temporary settlement yesterday from where police recovered it upon knowing about its actual place.

The municipal police extracted the statue from the possession of a homeless old man who was living under the bridge. Referring to the old man, police said he had brought the statue with him after seeing it dumped in a pile of garbage.

Police, however, know nothing about how the statue reached there and how old it could be.

Sakhwa, who lived 1,100 years ago, was a philanthropist and is believed to have cleared the debts of Kathmandu valley residents.

A version of this article appears in the print on December 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.