Let us embrace the truth Buddha was not born in Kapilvastu, #Nepal but Kapileswara, #Bhubansewar , #India
The evidences were tampered and copied to create a false identity in Tarai region of Nepal. Read the thread. Retweet and Share

It has long been taken for granted that Kapilavastu, the capital city of the Sakyas,
and Lumbini, the actual birth place of Goutam Buddha, were situated in the Nepalese
Tarai.

The main basis of this belief is the inscribed pillar of Rummindei, recording the visit
of the Mayuran emperor Asoka, the great to the place where Buddha was born. It is little
known that the same fact in similar words and script existed in Odisha.

Dr. Cunningham in his “Ancient Geography of India” points out the place where from
the Tarai inscription had been discovered is not at all related to the name Kapilavastu or
even the name Kapila.

Noted historian Dr. Smith asserts that the place of the
discovery of the Tarai inscription was never called Rummindei; it was a forged name given
to it by archaeologist Dr. Fuhrer. Besides it has been proved that Buddhism had not been
adopted in Nepal till the 6th century A.D.

The centuries old Kapileswara village has striking similarity with the Kapilavastu in name and a region nearby called Lembai is similar to Lumbini. According to Tripitaka,
Lumbini was a small estate with its capital at Kapilvastu.

Till recently, as can be seen from
maps of 1817 AD there was a Lembai Pragana; and Kapileswara was a part of it. Besides,
the inscription of Kapileswara village corroborates the statement of Tripitaka and the Kalinga
war of Asoka.

Dr. Fuhrer discovered the Asokan stone inscription in the Nepal Tarai in 1896. The
Kapileswara birth-plate, also evidently an Asokan stone inscription, was discovered 32
years later.

It appeared in the Indian Historical Quarterly (vol. V) in 1929, but no research was conducted on it. Research scholars both inside and outside Odisha and India did not examine the evidence with any seriousness
and it was left as such until 1977.

Chakradhar Mahapatra conducted extensive research on the subject and brought out a book named “The Real Birth Place of Buddha” published in
1977.

Asoka-pillar existed at the then Kapilavastu and the present Kapileswar, which recorded the birth. It was destroyed in religious disturbances in Orissa.

The Buddhists erected a second pillar in the then
inaccessible Nepal Tarai, and engraved on it a duplicate of the original inscription. This is
why, we are told, the date of the epigraph in “the Buddha era” and the name of engraver,
Chundray, are not mentioned on Rumindei pillar.

The duplicate plate makers were at least
honest enough to remain silent on the date of the inscription and did not repeat the name,
“Chundray”. It is also a fact that this pillar is devoid of the characteristic Asokan capital.

Now talking about the inscription plate:
In the month of March 1928 a stone inscription like the one found in the Tarai region
was found in Kapileswara, a village then one mile away from Bhubaneswar. Now it has become a part of the city of the part called the old town.

The Kapileswara plate, first brought to public notice by Mr. Harenchandra Chakaldar of the Calcutta University was procured about March 1928 by Mr. Birendranath Roy for his private museum in Puri. Upon research it was found out that...

The farmer had found the inscribed stone slab set in the mud wall of his hut. This is all the information which Mr. Royand others could gather from him. It is known that the Ashokan Pillar at Kapileswara was broken into 2 halves during a religious strife probably in 5th Century

and one half is worshipped at Bhaskereswara Temple nearby while another half is at Kapileswara Temple. While the make of the duplicate one in Tarai, Nepal is made out of different kind of stone

The specimen at Kapileswar has no lustrous polish like the elephant figure at Dhauli, and they exhibit indigenous characteristics of local school of art, executed in local stone. Even the stone
inscription has got a number of spots, and it is not polished suggests no tampering.

Now let us take look at some corroborative evidence:
After renouncing the world Buddha went out aimlessly and reached Rajagriha, the
capital of Magadha....In Niravana Katha Jataka edited by Bhadanta Ananda Kausalyana it is mentioned
that it took 60 days for Buddha to travel...

from Rajagriha to Kapilavastu a distance
of 60 yojanas i.e. 675 kms towards North at the daily average rate of 1 yojana which is 11 kms.
Kapileswara is at distance 650 km from Rajagriha straight while the so called Kapilvastu region of Tarai area is only a distance of only 300kms

It is mentioned that Kapilavastu and Rajagriha are in straight line.
Kapilavastu of Toshala, (later known as Toshali) which is presently Kapileswara of
Bhubaneswar is situated to the south of Rajagriha and both of them stand almost on the
same meridian at 85° 45’E and 85° 30’E.

Rajagriha is situated on latitude 25° North
while Kapilavastu of Tarai region is located on the latitude 27°30’N.
So, this cancels out Kapilavastu in Nepal as the location of Buddha birth place and shows that it is indeed Kapileswara / Kapilvastu near Bhubaneswar.

Hemavantagiri as mentioned by Buddha was known as Swarnakuta. Swarna and Hema both stand for gold. This hilly region also included
forest area of Chandaka which was named after Chhandaka, the Charioteer of Buddha.
Khandagiri, Dhauligiri and Udyagiri hills belonged to this area

Buddha siad to one his disciples as mentioned in records,
“Ujum janapado raja hemavantassa passato”
“Dhana viriyana sampanno tosalesu niketino”
These holy words of Buddha are quoted in Pabbajja Sutta in Suttanipata published by Palli
Publication Board.

Translated it reads -
“there is O’ king, a country on the slop of the Hemagiri, rich in wealth and
heroes, who dwell among the Tosalas i.e. straight from here the rich the
prosperous Tosali which lies in the foot of Hemavanta, is my residence”

Hema means both Ice and Gold. This could be the reason of confusion. Toshala/Toshali was another name of Kalinga with it's capital in this region.

Different clans and Surnames like Adityas, Mallas, Raulas etc are still found in the old town region surrounding of Kapileswar.
A place nearby is called Goutama Nagar
It is also said that the old name of Bhubaneswar was Buddheswar

Keshaputta is the place where Goutama Buddha cut the hair off his noble head one fine morning and the prince of Kapilavastu declared sannyasa, on the bank of the river Anoma. This place could be identified as...

Keshanagar in the district of Cuttack-on bank of the river Chitrotpala a downstream of Mahanadi. Anoma is the Vedic name of the river Mahanadi. Kalama is a famous surname in the region which is most probably after a sage known as Alar Kalama from whom Goutama sought knowledge.

The Mallas belonging to Vashistha clan are still to be seen at Kapileswara near
Bhubaneswar. They are now nearly 500 families. Families have inter marriage system only
among themselves.

They are now known as Mallias. After the religious transformation they
have become worshippers of Shiva, but all of them strongly believe that Buddha was born
at Kapileswar.

Another evidence is the worship of Mahamaya or Mayadevi, the Mother of Buddha in nearby areas including Chausathi Yogini Temple where she is the primary deity.

The temple of Mausimaa in Gautam Nagar exists nearby about 3 km from Kapileshwar. The practice of calling Mausi (Mother's sister) as Maa can be traced to the fact that Siddhartha in his childhood was raised by Mahaprajapati Gautami his maternal aunt.
Can't be just a coincidence

All these facts have been collected from
http://magazines.odisha.gov.in/Journal/jounalvol1/pdf/orhj-3.pdf
and some from my own research.
Thanks for reading spread it as far as possible.
Let us delve more into research on this and demand recognition.

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