Country Nepal District Kapilvastu District Local time Monday 4:19 PM | Zone Lumbini Zone Time zone Nepal Time (UTC+5:45) Population 7,564 (1991) | |
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Weather 32°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 45% Humidity | ||
Nigalihawa is a village development committee in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 7564 people living in 1231 individual households.
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Map of Nigalihawa 32800, Nepal
History
Modern day Nigalihawa was known as Sobhavati in ancient times. According to Theravāda Buddhist tradition, Koṇāgamana Buddha was born in Sobhavati. Koṇāgamana Buddha is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 23 of the Buddhavamsa, one of the books of the Pāli Canon.
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