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50 / SPACES FEBRUARY 2016 Excavating the central trench
1 2 1. Wall with in situ carved brick in the trench next to the Samai Mai Temple 2. Wall of the central pond 3. Detail of carved brick in the trench next to the Samai Mai Temple Introduction After his birth at Lumbini, Siddhartha Gautama lived a princely life at Kapilavastu, the capital of the Shakya Kingdom. After a prophecy that Siddhartha would either become a great king or religious teacher, his father - King Suddhodana - confined the young prince within the palace, surrounded by luxury. At the age of 29, Siddhartha ventured out and viewed Four Sights: an old man, a sick man, a dead man and an ascetic. Following these observations, he renounced his family and worldly life and, departing through Kapilavastu’s Eastern Gate, began a quest for enlightenment. At the end of his existence, the Gautama Buddha instructed his followers that pilgrimage should be undertaken to the key sites associated with his life; Lumbini, where he was born; Bodhgaya, where he achieved enlightenment; Sarnath, where he preached his first sermon; and Kusinagar, where he passed away. Although not 3 explicitly cited as a place of pilgrimage, monks and lay folk also began to visit and venerate Kapilavastu and it featured within the travel itineraries of the Chinese monks Faxian, Xuanzang and Yijing. However, the location of the city was lost towards the end of the first millennium CE and its monuments were reclaimed by the jungle. Using the descriptions contained within the accounts of the Chinese pilgrims, archaeological pioneers FEBRUARY 2016 SPACES / 51
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