Birth Place of Buddha

Where is the birth place of Buddha? Was there any significant event that happened when he was born? Lumbini is one of the four pilgrimage sites that a Buddhist will visit.
बुद्धको जन्मस्थान
Buddha sünnikodu

Lumbini is the place where the Buddha was born. Historians believed that Buddha was born between 623 BCE to 563 BCE. It, is the Mecca of every Buddhist, being one of the four holy places of Buddhism. It is said in the Parinibbana Sutta that Buddha himself identified four places of future pilgrimage: the sites of his birth, enlightenment, first discourse, and death.

Lumbini is situated at the foothills of the Himalayas in modern Nepal. In the Buddha's time, Lumbini was a beautiful garden full of green and shady Sal trees (Shorea). King Suddhodana, father of Gautama Buddha was of the Sakya dynasty belonging to the Kshatriya or the warrior caste.
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Maya Devi, his mother, gave birth to the child on her way to her parent's home in Devadaha while taking rest in Lumbini under a sal tree. While she was standing, she felt labor pains and catching hold of a drooping branch of a Sal tree, the baby, the future Buddha, was born.  It was said that the newborn child was standing upright on a lotus petal, shedding an oval halo, around his head, while two celestial figures pour water and lotuses from vessels of heaven as indicated by the delineation of clouds. The infant was said to have walked 7 steps with a lotus appearing at his feet with each step and declared this is his last birth. ​