You gotta hand it to him !

A young man in Nepal chopped off his right hand as an offering to a feared Hindu goddess, state-run media reported.

"He offered special worship at the temple this morning. After the worship, he chopped off his right hand and offered to the temple of Goddess Kali," the national RSS news agency said.

The 23-year-old survived the amputation by a kukhuri, a traditional curved Nepalese knife, and was in stable condition at a hospital in Biratnagar, 250 kilometres south-east of Kathmandu, the news agency reported.

It was not known why he sacrificed his hand.

Impoverished Nepal is a deeply traditional and religious country where around 80 per cent of the 27 million people are Hindu.