In the 7th and 6th centuries BCE Lumbini located in the Tarai region in the southern part of Nepal, was a beautiful pleasure garden collectively maintained by the Sakyas of Kapilvastu and the Koliyas of Devadaha or Ramagrama. Tilaurakot the capital city of Sakyas, lies in the Twenty-eight kilometers west of Lumbini and Devadaha, the capital of the Koliyas is 38 kilometers east of Lumbini. Pali literature describes Lumbini as a pradimoksha-vana blessed with blooming Sal trees and masses of beautiful flowers and as a place where bees of five colours hum the sweet warbling of various birds and other natural scenery in Lumbini was compared to the Chittalata grave of Indra;s paradise in heaven. When Buddha was lying down on the deathbed at the age of eighty in Kushinagar his disciples, monks and nuns surrounded him. On this occasion, he advised with feeling of holy reverence and awe.The place where the Tathagata was born, (Lumbini grove).