March Comes in Like a Lion

I know, I’ve been doing another poor job of posting consistently. Is it any consolation that in the past 3 days I’ve been to Patan’s Durbar Square, Pashupatinath Temple (for the second time in a week), Bhaktapar (again), Thamel… and spent a day curled up in bed, fasting, with yet another stomach problem?

If we expand out to within the space of two weeks:  we’ve also wandered around on the side of The Pretty Mountain Hill (Shivapuri) and are planning outings to Boudinath and/or Swayambhunath this weekend.

I just downloaded 750 new pictures into my computer. But I really do intend to return to the stupa theme first, if I can stay well and un-busy and un-exhausted enough to do so over the next few days.  (And if the computer/internet behaves better than it has done today and has been doing lately.)

In the meantime, here’s a token pair of lions from Patan so that I can say I posted something today:

A pair of lions in Patan Durbar Square

Nepali of the Day:
simha: lion
chituwa: leopard
bagh: tiger
duita: two (of something)

yeuta:  one (of something)

thulo: big

basnu:  to sit

aaunu:  to come

-maa:  in

-dai chan:  they are VERBing

Patanmaa, duita Thulo simha basdai-chan.

Marchmaa, yeuta simha audai-cha.