The beautiful Rara Lake in Mugu district was once a valley. One day a hermit came to the village and begged the villagers for food but a foolish woman gave him instead of a handful of ash.
The hermit turned back at once, going the way he had come, telling all the good people who had given him alms to go up the mountain. He went up the mountain himself and then with a blow of his hand, he broke his tumbler and the water in it ran down the slope. There was an unending flow of water until the village was submerged and the whole valley became a lake.