In 7th and 8th centuries BC Lumbini, located in Tarai region in the southern part of Nepal, was a beautiful pleasure garden collectively maintained by the Sakyas of Kapilvastu and the Koliyas Of Devadaha or Ramagrama. Twenty eight kilometers west of Lumbini lies Tilaurakot: the capital of the Sakyas and 38 kilometers east of of Lumbini is Devadaha, the capital of Koliya...

Basanta Bidari (2003), Lumbini, A Heaven of Sacred Refuse, p.3)

Proclamation:

Foremost am I in the world,

Seniormost am I in the world,

Best am I in the world,

This is my last birth,

No more am I to born

-Jatak Nidana Katha

Left- portrait of Birth of Prince at Buddha Mahamaya Gardens,Lumbini

Right-(Pradhan, 16-17, 1979 in Basanta Bidari (2003), Lumbini, A Heaven of Sacred Refuse, p.69);