The square is one of the main urban spaces of Bhaktapur and grew up around the ancient crossroads between India and Tibet and is the oldest part of Bhaktapur. The Square is also known as taha chapara, which means the big rest house. It probably gets its name from the Dattatreya Temple, because once a year during the month of February the temple becomes a big rest house for a benign invasion consisting of thousands of pilgrims from all over India and other parts of Nepal. They descend upon the Square to celebrate Shiva ratri, a night-long festival celebrating Íiva. The main structure in the Square is the Dattatreya Temple [S].The god Dattatreya is a three-headed combination of Brahma, Vishnu, and Íiva, with Vishnu predominating in the trinity‹thus his symbols of the conch, the wheel, and garuda, are mounted on stone pillars in front of the temple.