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|name = Gotihawa
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|native_name = गोटिहवा
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|settlement_type = [[Village development committee (Nepal)|Village development committee]]
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|image_skyline = Ashoka_Pillar_in_Lumbini_Nepal.jpg
|image_caption = The Gotihawa [[Pillar of Ashoka]].
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|map_caption = Map of the village development committees in Kapilvastu District
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|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nepal

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|subdivision_name = {{flag|Nepal}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[Zones of Nepal|Zone]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Lumbini Zone]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Nepal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Kapilvastu District]]
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|population_as_of = 1991
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|population_total = 3335
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_blank1_title = Ethnicities

|timezone = [[Nepal Time]]
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'''Gotihawa ''' (formerly called '''Gutivā''' in Western sources) is a [[Village development committee (Nepal)|village development committee]] located about {{convert|4|km|abbr=out}} southeast of [[Kapilvastu Municipality|Kapilavastu]], in [[Kapilvastu District]], in the [[Lumbini Zone]] of southern [[Nepal]]. At the time of the [[1991 Nepal census]] it had a population of 3,335 people living in 567 individual households.<ref>{{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 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |archive-date=12 October 2008 }}</ref>

==History==
Modern-day Gotihawa was known as Khemavati in ancient times. According to [[Theravada|Theravāda]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] tradition, [[Kakusandha Buddha]] was born in Khemavati.<ref name=Vicittasarabivamsa>{{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 22: Kakusandha Buddhavamsa|pages=274–80|publisher=Ti=Ni Publishing Center|location=Yangon, Myanmar|year=1992|url=http://www.myanmarnet.net/nibbana/gotama/gcobv12.htm#22}}</ref> Kakusandha Buddha is one of the ancient [[Buddhahood|Buddhas]] whose biography is chronicled in chapter 22<ref name=Vicittasarabivamsa/> of the ''[[Buddhavamsa]]'', one of the books of the [[Pāli Canon]].

The base of a [[Pillar of Ashoka]] has been discovered at Gotihawa, and it has been suggested that it is the original base of the [[Nigali Sagar]] pillar fragments, found a few miles away, which contain an inscription of [[Ashoka]] (3rd century BCE).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Irwin |first1=John |title='Aśokan' Pillars: A Reassessment of the Evidence-II: Structure |journal=The Burlington Magazine |date=1974 |volume=116 |issue=861 |page=721 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/877843 |issn=0007-6287}}</ref>

[[File:Fragments of Gotihawa and Nigali sagar.jpg|thumb|center|Fragments of Gotihawa (left) and [[Nigali Sagar]] (right).]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Verardi, G. (1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140718103633/http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ancientnepal/pdf/ancient_nepal_140_07.pdf Excavations at Gotihawa. A Note on the Results Obtained during the First Excavation Campaign in Winter 1994-95], Ancient Nepal, pp. 180–205

{{Kapilvastu District}}

[[Category:Populated places in Kapilvastu District]]
[[Category:Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Nepal]]

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