Bikuli is a small
village
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in the Kapilvastu
Municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
,
ward
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Division or unit
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number 10 in the
Kapilvastu District
Kapilvastu District ( ), often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal. The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of and in 2001 had a population of 481,976, which increased t ...
of western
Nepal
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. The village was named Bikuli because there were no water sources (Kulo) for
irrigation
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in that village and hence meaning is without canals. Bikuli was a new version of Bekulo ('Be' stands for 'not' and 'Kulo' stands for 'canals').
The village is situated 8 km north of the district capital,
Taulihawa and 8.5 km north of the
Tilaurakot
Tilaurakot is a neighborhood in Kapilvastu Municipality in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. Previously it was a Village development committee. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5684 peo ...
, the proper kapilvastu, where Lord
Gautam Buddha Gautam may refer to:
*Gautama (name), a name of Sanskrit origin
* Gautam (clan), a Rajput clan in India
* Gautam (Nepali name), a surname
*Gautam Ashram
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is said to have been born and grown up. The village is 12 km south from the East-West
Highway
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of Nepal. The village lies on the bank of the largest man-made lake in Asia,
Jagdishpur Reservoir
The Jagdishpur Reservoir is a reservoir in Jahadi Village development committee (Nepal), Village Development Committee, Kapilvastu District, Nepal which was named after Er. Jagadish Jha who designed and supervised the construction of Banaganga dam ...
. The
reservoir
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Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
was constructed for the collection of river water for the irrigation of the southern belt of the Kapilvastu District during the
dry season
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.
More than 70% people in Bikuli are educated. The major occupation of people in this village is agricultural activities.
Kapilvastu District
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