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[citation needed] There are now two sites near the border between Nepal and India which are claimed as Kapilavastu — Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, India and Tilaurakot in Nepal. Finds at the Piprahwa (including a reliquary found inside a mud stupa) indicate Buddhist activity dating to the 5th–4th century BCE, around the time of the death of ...
Kapilavastu is the ancient city of the Sakyas, Sakyamuni Buddha son of Suddhodhan. There are more than 136 archaeological sites in the territory of ancient Kapilavastu. Tilaurākoṭ, Niglihawa, Gotihawa, Arorakot, Sisahaniyakot, Chhetradehi, Sagrahawa, and Pipari, etc. are enriched with ancient art remains and monuments that are discovered.
Kapilvastu District (Nepali: कपिलवस्तु जिल्ला [ˈkʌpilbʌstu] ⓘ), often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal.The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,738 square kilometres (671 sq mi) and in 2001 had a population of 481,976, which increased to 571,936 in 2011 and later according 2021 ...
Kapilvastu, formerly known by name of Taulihawa, is a municipality and administrative center of Kapilvastu District in Lumbini Province of southern Nepal.The municipality is located roughly 25 kilometres (16 mi) to the south-west of Lumbini, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the birthplace of Gautama Buddha.
Tilaurakot is a neighborhood in Kapilvastu Municipality in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Province of southern Nepal.Previously it was a Village development committee.At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5684 people living in 944 individual households. [1]
According to the Buddhist tradition, Gautama was born in Lumbini, [126] [128] now in modern-day Nepal, [r] and raised in Kapilavastu. [129] [s] The exact site of ancient Kapilavastu is unknown. [131] It may have been either Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh, in present-day India, [132] or Tilaurakot, in present-day Nepal. [133]
[39] [8] [24] [40] Others suggest that the original site of Kapilavastu is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) to the northwest, at Tilaurakot, in what is currently Kapilvastu District in Nepal. [41] [42] [43] This question is especially important to scholars of Buddhist history, as Kapilavastu was the capital of the Shakya kingdom.
The Nigrodharama is located at the site of the modern Kudan village, about six kilometres south of Tilaurakot, the citadel of Kapilavastu. [ citation needed ] The precise location of Nigrodharama is at the following coordinates: 27°31′41″N 83°02′27″E / 27.528186°N 83.040757°E / 27.528186; 83.040757