Kapilavastu
| Kapilavastu Nagarpalika कपिलवस्तु नगरपालिका Kapilavastu |
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| Coordinates | 27 ° 32 '43 " N , 83 ° 3' 12" E | ||
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| Country | Nepal | ||
| Province No. 5 | |||
| District | Kapilbastu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NP-P5 | ||
| height | 107 m | ||
| surface | 63.3 km² | ||
| Residents | 43,471 (2011) | ||
| density | 686.7 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | May 18, 2014 | ||
| Website | Kapilavastu | ||
| politics | |||
| Chief Executive Officer | Dibakar Bhujel (October 2015) | ||
| 19 wards | |||
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Kapilavastu ( Sanskrit ), Kapilbastu or Kapilavatthu ( Pali ; former name: Taulihawa ) is a city in the Terai in Nepal in the district of the same name , about 40 km west of Siddharthanagar and 11 km from the Indian border. This place is of particular importance as the traditional birthplace of the historical Buddha Siddharta Gautama .
Kapilavastu emerged from the amalgamation of the central community Taulihawa with some surrounding communities. In 2014, the neighboring Village Development Committees (VDCs) Gotihawa (in the south) and Tilaurakot (in the north) joined the city. The city is located on the western bank of the Banganga River . The urban area covers 63.3 km².
Kapilavastu was once the capital of the small state of the Shakya people in northern India.
Residents
In 2011 Kapilavastu (including the VDCs Gotihawa and Tilaurakot ) had 43,471 inhabitants (of which 21,725 were male) in 7129 households. Without these two VDCs, the population was 30,428.
meaning
According to mythological tradition, the city is said to have been built by the disciples of the Vedic sage ( Rishi ) Kapila . Kapilavastu is described in the sutras as the place where Siddhartha Gautama , the later Buddha, spent his youth; as the localization is difficult, this honor is also claimed by the places Tilaurakot and Piprahwa (India). In the palace there of his father Shuddhodana , who was the ruler ( Raja ) of this small kingdom, the marriage to Yasodhara and the birth of their son Rahula are said to have taken place. In particular, the legend of the “ three exits ”, during which the prince looked at the fact of old age, illness and death, makes Kapilavastu a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists. From his hometown, the young Siddhartha set out on the road to homelessness at the age of 29 in order, as an ascetic, to find the way to liberation from suffering and finally to enlightenment.
history
Fa-hsien , a 5th century Chinese pilgrim, described Kapilavastu ( Chinese 迦 毘羅 衛 ) as "a great scene of emptiness and abandonment," inhabited by a few monks, one or two families, and dangerous animals like lions and whites Elephants. Fa-hsien visited the lesser-known places like the palace of Shakya, where the hallmarks of the Bodhisattva child were discovered, and the garden of Lumbini east of the city, where the mother of the future Buddha bathed and gave birth. Hills, stupas and other ruins testify to the former prosperity of this area.
The tourist attraction of the historical place in today's administrative zone Lumbini and the location on the border of today's India with Nepal also explain the controversy as to whether the historical palace of Kapilavastu was on this side or on the other side of the border.
Remains of residential houses (palace?) In Kapilvastu
Remains of the east gate in Kapilvastu
Remains of the west gate in Kapilvastu
See also
Other Buddhist sacred sites in the area include:
literature
- Bidari Basbata: Kapilavistu - The Ancient Shakya Kingdom of Nepal. In: Dharmadoor Vaishaka Pumima Special. Sarnath, Varanasi 1997 (Maha Bodhi Soc.)
- Krishna M. Srivastava: Discovery of Kapilavastu. New Delhi 1986, ISBN 81-85016-16-X (archeology)
- KM Srivastava: Archaeological Exvacations at Priprahwa and Ganwaria and the Identification of Kapilavastu. In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. Volume 3 (1980), pp. 103-110
- KM Srivastava: Kapilavastu and Its Precise Location. In: East and West. Vol. 29 (1979) pp. 61-74
- John C. Huntington: Sowing the Seeds of the Lotus. In: Orientations. September 1986, pp. 46-58.
- Swoyambhu D. Tuladhar: The Ancient City of Kapilvastu - Revisited. In: Ancient Nepal. Volume 151 (November 2002), pp. 1-7
- Kevin Trainor: Kapilavastu. In: Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish: Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Routledge, London 2010
Web links
- Lumbini On Trial: The Untold Story (Contests Correctness of Archaeological Finds)
- Lumbini International Research Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b National Population and Housing Census 2011 (PDF) Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013.
- ↑ Piprahwa and Kapilavastu
- ↑ KM Srivastava: Kapilavastu and Its Precise Location. In: East and West , 1979, pp. 61-74
- ↑ SD Tuladhar: The Ancient City of Kapilvastu-Revisited. In: Ancient Nepal. 1951, pp. 1-7
- ↑ James Legge: A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms. The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1886.
