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Tagskapilavastu
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇳🇵 Nepal · Temple complex
Mauryan Ashokan (244 BCE) to early historic Buddhist · Mauryan Ashokan (Kapilavastu Sakya)
Gotihawa is an Ashokan pillar site (244 BCE) and early Buddhist stupa 20 km west of Lumbini, marking Kakusandha Buddha's birthplace with cracked brick stupa (12 m) and pillar stump (2.1 m) with…
🇳🇵 Nepal · Ancient city
Painted Grey Ware to Early Historic 900 BCE–200 CE · Shakya (Koliya confederacy)
Walled city (900 BCE–c.200 CE) identified by P.C. Mukherji (1899) as Kapilavastu — Shakya capital where Prince Siddhartha spent 29 years before Great Renunciation — 1.5×2 km walled enclosure with…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Buddhist (500 BCE–300 CE) to Gupta · Sakya Buddhist (Kapilavastu polity)
Piprahwa is a 5th century BCE–300 CE stupa–monastery claimed as Kapilavastu's relic site, where Peppé (1898) found the inscribed stone casket with Buddha's bone relics, now in Indian Museum Kolkata.
