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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vandetta" data-source="post: 25687997" data-attributes="member: 555816">'Twenty years after his coronation, Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, visited this place and worshipped because here the Buddha, the sage of the Sakyans, was born.[44] He had a stone figure and a pillar set up and because the Lord was born here, the village of Lumbini was exempted from tax and required to pay only one eighth of the produce. '   This inscription is found on a pillar in Lumbini where the Buddha was born. It was issued in 249 B.C<a href="https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html" target="_blank">https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html</a></blockquote>

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