| Official Name: | Dhanushadham |
| Native Name: | धनुषाधाम नगरपालिका |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Nepal |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Nepal |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Province No. 2 |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Dhanusa |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Baleshwor Mandal (NC) |
| Leader Title1: | Deputy Mayor |
| Leader Name1: | Bidya Devi Bhujel (NC) |
| Population As Of: | 1991 |
| Population Total: | 6450 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Timezone: | NST |
| Utc Offset: | +5:45 |
| Coordinates: | 26.84°N 86.07°W |
Dhanushadham is a municipality in Dhanusha District in Province No. 2 of south-eastern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Govindapur, Umprempur, Yagyabhumi, Dhanushadham village development committees (VDCs).[1] [2] It is a religious place of Hindu worship in Nepal. It is believed that a part of Shiva Dhanusha (Bow of God Shiva) that was broken by Rama during Sita's swayamvara, is housed. Now there is temple around the remaining of bow and visited by Hindu devotees from all over the world. That's why it is named Dhanushadham.
Every year there is a festival on the occasion of Makar Sakranti and devotee offers prayer to the Dhanusha temple. The place is 18 km from Janakpur and there is concrete road connecting Dhanushadham to Janakpur. It can be reached by car, motorbike, bus and so on. The travel by bus takes 45 minutes from Janakpur.
At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 6,450 persons living in 1,267 individual households.[3]