Nala is an interesting small village 5 kilometers northwest of Banepa that used to serve as an outpost of Bhaktapur during medieval times. There are two prominent religious shrines in Nala: the Bhagwati Temple in the central square, and the Karunamaya Temple, which lies on the edge of the village

Ugrachandi Nala Bhagawati Temple is a oldest historic temple all over nepal. It is the one of the four Bhagawati Temple of Nepal ugrachandi vdc is named by this bhagawati.this is 4(four floored tample}of nepal.

According to a legend the image of Karunamaya in Nepal used to belong to a temple in Cohbar hill in the south west of the Kathmandu Valley.

The image was stolen and brought to Tibet until the Tibetan king got an terrible skin desease and ordered to bring back the image of Karunamaya to where it belonged.

The people who were ordered to bring it back to Nepal threw it in a Nepali river.

One day after having a dream, a fisherman found the image. Unable to move the image much further than the river bank, a temple was built around the image.