Posts of Kapilvastu

In 1899, Purna Chanda Mukherji of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) led an excavation in Tilaurakot and laid the foundation that the place is Kapilvastu, named after the great eastern scholar of Sankhya Philosophy- Saint Kapil. The district is home to Nepal’s largest manmade lake, Jagadish Reservoir, which is a Ramsar Site (Wetland of International Importance) on July 16, 2022, Jagadishpur became the second bird sanctuary of Nepal.