Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.488

c6.488

The inscription on the Nigliva pillar (situated 38 miles north-west of Uskabazar Station on the B.N.W. Rly.) shows that it was erected near the stūpa of Konāgamana but it is not now in situ. Lumbinīvana is referred to in the *Buddhacaritakāvya* (I, v. 23; XVII, v. 27) as situated in Kapilavastu which is the birthplace of the Buddha. For different views as to the location of the Lumbinī-grove, vide B. C. Law, *Geography of Early Buddhism*, pp. 29-30; Law, *Geographical Essays*, pp. 185ff.