Nigalihawa is a village development committee in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the

1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...

, it had a population of 7564 people living in 1231 individual households.

History

Nigalihawa was known as ''Sobhavati'' in ancient times. According to Theravada Buddhist tradition, Konagamana Buddha was born in ''Sobhavati''. 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

{{Kapilvastu-geo-stub Archaeological sites in Nepal Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal Populated places in Kapilvastu District