This is a fantastic Buddhist Stupa at a place known as Baudha, about seven kilometers east of Kathmandu. The largest spherical Stupa is held in great veneration both by Lamas of Nepal and Tibetans and also by Nepali Hindus. Legend has it that a king in ancient time built a pond with stone water spouts near the present Royal palace. Since water did not come out of the water spout, the King began to worry about it. After deep meditation, it dawned upon him that water would not flow out of the water spouts unless a person endowed with all the 32 virtues was sacrificed to the water spouts. There were none save himself endowed with the 32 virtues. Determined as he was to make the water flow out of the water spouts, he asked his son to be where he had built the pond with the water spouts at mid-night and chop off the head of a person he would see lying there wrapped in white cloth. The Prince did as he was ordered by his father King. No sooner than the head of the king was severed, water started flowing out of the spouts. The scene was so ghastly that one of the carved water spouts turned its face towards the sky. The pond and the water spouts are there near the Royal Palace. The water spouts which looked towards the sky in now replaced.