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The inner courtyard, the Nasal Chowk, is one of the few that can be visited.
At the Indra Chowk junction, four dragon-lions snarl beside the unusual stairway entrance to the many-hued and balconied Akash Bhairav, housing a silver Bhairav image brought out on feast days.
Flanking the brick palace with its broad-lintelled, latticed windows and nine-story tower is the raised brick square of Basantapur Chowk, where the royal elephants were once kept and where curio dealers now spread their wares.
In the next courtyard, the Mul Chowk, there are two outstanding examples of 17th-century Newari metalwork, tall bronze reliefs of the goddesses Ganga (standing on a crocodile) and Jamuna (standing on a tortoise).
' Other examples of the same phenomenon include: chokey `customs station' and chowk `marketplace,' from cauki `marketplace'; mulmul (see above) and mull `soft thin muslin,' from malmal (see above); pandit `scholar; man held in high respect' and pundit `very learned; authoritative commentator,' from pandit `wise, learned'; and numdah `thick felt rug' and numnah `felt or sheepskin saddle pad,' from namda `carpet, rug.