Tilaurakota
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Tilaurakota (तिलौराकोट) is a village in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. It might have been the cardinal point of the ancient Shakyan city of Kapilavastu, where Gautama Buddha spent 29 years of his lifetime. The site was listed as a UNESCO tentative site in 1996 by the Nepalese government.[1]
Variants
- Tilaurakot
- Tilaurakota (तिलौराकोट) (नेपाल) (AS, p.405)
Location
It is situated west of Lumbini Grove, traditionally held to be the birthplace of Gautama Buddha.
History
The 19th-century search for the historical site of Kapilavastu followed the accounts left by Faxian and later by Xuanzang, who were Chinese Buddhist monks who made early pilgrimages to the site.[2]Some archaeologists have identified the Tilaurakot archeological site as the location for the historical site of Kapilavastu,[3] while others claim it was 16 km away at Piprahwa in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[4][5]
तिलौराकोट
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[6] ने लेख किया है ...तिलौराकोट(AS, p.405) भारत के पड़ोसी देश नेपाल का एक प्राचीन ग्राम है। इस ग्राम को कुछ लोग प्राचीन काल के प्रसिद्ध नगर कपिलवस्तु के स्थान पर बसा हुआ मानते हैं। (दे.कपिलवस्तु)
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References
- ↑ https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/np
- ↑ Beal, Samuel (1884). Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Hiuen Tsiang. 2 vols. Translated by Samuel Beal. London. 1884. Reprint: Delhi. Oriental Books Reprint Corporation. 1969. Volume 1; Beal, Samuel, trans. (1911). The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang. Translated from the Chinese of Shaman (monk) Hwui Li. London. Reprint Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. 1973; Li, Rongxi (translator) (1995). The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions. Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. Berkeley, California. ISBN 1-886439-02-8; Watters, Thomas (1904). On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. Volume1. Royal Asiatic Society, London.
- ↑ Tuladhar, Swoyambhu D. (November 2002), "The Ancient City of Kapilvastu - Revisited" (PDF), Ancient Nepal (151): 1–7
- ↑ Srivastava, KM (1980). "Archaeological Excavations at Piprāhwā and Ganwaria and the Identification of Kapilavastu". The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 13 (1): 103–10.
- ↑ "Shailvee Sharda (May 4, 2015). UP's Piprahwa is Buddha's Kapilvastu? Times of India".
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.405