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Kapilavastu is the place where Siddhartha Gautama spent the first 29 years of his life. According to Buddhist sources the name Kapilvatthu means "tawny area", due to the abundance of reddish sand in the area. [3] [4] Most foreign accounts from the medieval period, particularly from China, described Kapilavastu as being part of "Central India". [5]
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 ...
The east gate at Tilaurakot archaeological site in Kapilavastu municipality, Kapilvastu District, Nepal. Tilaurakot located in Kapilavastu municipality (Taulihawa) may have been the ancient city of Kapilavastu. On the other hand, nearby Piprahwa in India has also been proposed as the location for the historical site of Kapilavastu. [7] [8]
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]
Kapilavastu Museum is a cultural and religious museum in Tilaurakot, Nepal.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.
Kapilavastu is regarded as the place where he grew up. The location of ancient Kapilavastu may either be Tilaurakot, present-day Nepal, or Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh (northern India), which both lay close to Lumbini.
Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini and raised in the Shakya capital of Kapilavastu. According to legend, Śuddhodana went to great lengths to prevent Siddhartha from becoming a śramaṇa , including banning him from leaving the home and surrounding him by women and other sensual pleasures.
Nepal believes Tilaurakot to be Kapilavastu, and nominated it along with Lumbini for world heritage status. An excavation at Tilaurakot in 1962 revealed ancient brick structures but no relics. [ 10 ] In 1970's thousands of Buddha relics were said to begin growing out of the east side of the stupa of Swayambhunath in Kathmandu . [ 14 ]