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Kapilavastu
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English
Etymology
From en sa कपिलवस्तु, from sa कपिल वस्तु 1.
Proper noun
Kapilavastu, a city of ancient India, capital of the Shakyas in late Iron Age India, around the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Early residence of Gautama Buddha and that of his parents Suddhodana and Maya. Modern ruins located at either Piprahwa in Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India or Tilaurakot in Kapilvastu Municipality, Lumbini Province, Nepal.
en June 2, 2016 June 1, 2016 Ellen Barry India and Nepal in Not-Very-Enlightened Spat Over Buddha’s Childhood Home https://web.archive.org/web/20160602043721/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/world/asia/nepal-india-buddha-kapilavastu.html June 02, 2016 Asia Pacific A6 Buddhist lore has it that Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, grew up within the luxurious setting of his father’s palace in the city of Kapilavastu, carefully guarded from any exposure to human suffering.
en municipality r/Lumbini c/Nepal. Formerly known as Taulihawa until 2017.
en district p/Lumbini c/Nepal.
Translations
city in Nepal
Arabic: ar كابيلافاستو kābīlāfāstū
Bengali: bn কপিলবস্তু
Burmese: my ကပိလဝတ်
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 迦毘羅衛 Jiāpíluówèi
Hindi: hi कपिलवस्तु
Japanese: ja カピラヴァストゥ kapiravasutu, ja 迦毘羅衛 kabirae ateji
Khmer: km កបិលវត្ថុ
Malayalam: ml കപിലവസ്തു
Marathi: mr कपिलवस्तु kapilavastu
Nepali: ne कपिलवस्तु
Sanskrit: sa कपिलवस्तु
Sinhalese: si කපිලවස්තු
Thai: th กบิลพัสดุ์