Kapilavastu Kapilavastu was an ancient city in the north of Indian subcontinent which was the capital of the clan gaṇasaṅgha or "republic" of the Shakyas...

Look up Kapilavastu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kapilavastu may refer to: Kapilavastu (ancient city), ancient city, the capital of Shakya Taulihawa...

monks of great Kapilavastu'. This led some scholars to believe that modern-day Piprahwa was the site of the ancient city of Kapilavastu, the capital of...

the Shakya, who lived in an oligarchic republic, with their capital at Kapilavastu. In later renditions of the life of the Buddha, Śuddhodana was often...

UNESCO in 1997. In the time of the Buddha, Lumbini was situated east of Kapilavastu and south-west of Devadaha of Shakya, an oligarchic republic. According...

in Lumbini, now in modern-day Nepal, and raised in Kapilavastu. The exact site of ancient Kapilavastu is unknown. It may have been either Piprahwa, Uttar...

was married to her cousin King Suddhodana, who ruled in the kingdom of Kapilavastu. In Buddhist texts, a white elephant was said to have entered her side...

historians claim Tilaurakot located in Kapilavastu municipality (Taulihawa) to be the ancient city of Kapilavastu. On the other hand, some other archaeologists...

performed twice, with the Buddha performing it once at his home town of Kapilavastu before performing the main miracle at Savatthi. It is considered to have...

formed their northern border. The capital of the Shakyas was the city of Kapilavastu. The name of the Shakyas is attested primarily in the Pali forms Sakya...