Category:Ashoka Pillar, Nigali Sagar

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LocationNigalihawa, Kapilvastu District, Lumbini Province, Nepal
Map27° 35′ 41.7″ N, 83° 05′ 44.9″ E
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English: Ashoka Pillar at Nigali Sagar 27°35′42″N 83°05′45″E / 27.594908°N 83.095797°E / 27.594908; 83.095797 Location and photographs. Also called Nighihawa pillar, or Nigliva pillar, or Araurakot Asoka Pillar. It is located about 20 kilometers northwest of Lumbini and 7 kilometers northeast of Kapilavastu Lumbini development trust report.

In this place the "Kanakamuni Buddha" was born. The Asoka inscription engraved on the pillar in Brahmi script and Pali language attests the fact that Emperor Asoka enlarged the Kanakamuni Buddha's stupa, worshiped it and erected a stone pillar to mark the birthplace of Kanakamuni Buddha on the occasion of the twentieth year of his coronation.

The inscription, made when Emperor Asoka visited the site in 249 BCE and erected the pillar, reads:

Brahmi script and Pali language: "Devanam piyena piyadasin lajina- chodasavasa bhisitena Budhasa Konakamanasa thube-dutyam vadhite Visativa sabhisitena –cha atana-agacha-mahiyite silathabe-cha usa papite"

English (Smith 1969):

“His Majesty King Priyadarsina in the 14th year of his reign enlarged for the second time the stupa of the Buddha Kanakamuni and in the 20th year of his reign, having come in person, paid reverence and set up a stone pillar”.

The Chinese pilgrims Fa-Hien and Hiuen-Tsang describe the Kanakamuni Stupa and the Asoka Pillar in their travel accounts. Hiuen Tsang speaks of a lion capital atop the pillar, now lost.

There is also a second inscription, "Om mani padme hum and Sri Ripu Malla Chiram Jayatu 1234" made by King Ripu Malla in the year 1234 (Saka Era corresponding to 1312 CE).

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