Nigalihawa
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Nigalihawa
|native_name = निगलिहवा
|settlement_type = Village development committee
|mapsize = 300px
|map_caption = Map of the village development committees in Kapilvastu District
|pushpin_map = Nepal#South Asia
|pushpin_relief = yes
|pushpin_label_position = bottom
|pushpin_mapsize = 300
|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nepal
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Nepal}}
|subdivision_type1 = Zone
|subdivision_name1 = Lumbini Zone
|subdivision_type2 = District
|subdivision_name2 = Kapilvastu District
|population_as_of = 1991
|population_total = 7564
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_blank1_title = Ethnicities
|timezone = Nepal Time
|utc_offset = +5:45
|coordinates = {{coord|27.62|83.11|type:adm2nd_region:NP_source:unmaps-enwiki|display=inline,title}}
|elevation_footnotes =
|elevation_m =
|postal_code_type =
}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1|title=Nepal Census 2001|work=Nepal's Village Development Committees|publisher=Digital Himalaya|access-date=14 December 2008}}
History
Nigalihawa was known as Sobhavati in ancient times. According to Theravada Buddhist tradition, Konagamana Buddha was born in Sobhavati.{{cite book|last=Vicittasarabivamsa|first=U|author-link=Mingun Sayadaw|editor-last=Ko Lay|editor-first=U|editor2-last=Tin Lwin|editor2-first=U|title=The great chronicle of Buddhas, Volume One, Part Two|edition=1st|chapter=Chapter 23: Koṇāgamana Buddhavamsa|pages=280–5|publisher=Ti=Ni Publishing Center|location=Yangon, Myanmar|year=1992|url=http://www.myanmarnet.net/nibbana/gotama/gcobv12.htm#23}} Konagamana Buddha is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 23 of the Buddhavamsa, one of the books of the Pali Canon. Today, Sobhavati corresponds to the archaeological site referred to as Nigali Sagar, which is located in Nigalihawa.
References
{{reflist}}
{{Kapilvastu District}}
{{Kapilvastu-geo-stub}}
Category:Archaeological sites in Nepal