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- the Shakyas stretched into the Himalayas until the forested regions of the mountains, which formed their northern border. The capital of the Shakyas was...
- religious ceremony. In Nepal, a Kumari is a prepubescent girl selected from the Shakya clan of the Nepali Newari Buddhist community. The Kumari is also revered...
- ****ert descent from Kusha, a son of the avatar of Vishnu, Rama. In Nepal, Shakyas function as Vajrayana priests and are ranked higher in the caste hierarchy...
- Sakyamuni or Shakya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shakya was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe to which the Buddha belonged. Shakya may also refer to: Shakya Chogden...
- Prasenjit and disappearance of his successor Viḍūḍabha after defeating the Shakyas, the kingdom of Kosala declined. King Sumitra, who regarded himself to...
- and a Sakyani or a Sakyakumari as being the daughter of a clan of the Shakyas who had immigrated to Vedisa nagaram out of fear of Vidudabha menacing...
- Shakya 1999 p.12 Shakya 1999 p.20,21; Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon (1997), pp. 37, 41–43 Goldstein, 209 pp.51–2. Shakya 1999 p.26 Shakya 1999...
- Siddhartha Gautama (who later became known as Shakyamuni, the "Sage of the Shakyas", or the Buddha). Maya died shortly after Siddhartha was born. Śuddhodana...
- subcontinent which was the capital of the clan gaṇasaṅgha or "republic" of the Shakyas in the late Iron Age, around the 6th and 5th centuries BC. King Śuddhodana...
- Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Panauti and Banepa only, especially by Shakyas and Bajracharyas. Buddhist antiques are displaced and gigantic effigies...