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The identification of the site of Lumbini was the main goal of many archaeologists. Cunningham wrongly put forward Moksona Nagar as the probable location, while carllyle proposed that Lumbini was in or around Shivapur (Srivastava, 31-32:1954).
1893 AD Jaskaran Singh of Balarampur (near Sravasti) announced in a newspaper that he had seen an Asoka pillar with inscriptions in the Nepal Terai.
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