Personally worships at Lumbini
· Ashoka Pillar, Lumbini Sacred Garden, Lumbini, Nepal
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Ashoka's Lumbini pillar inscription directly records his personal arrival and worship at the place identified as the Buddha's birthplace. He commemorated the visit with a pillar and granted the village fiscal privileges. The year follows the conventional conversion of Ashoka's twentieth regnal year to 249 BCE.
