Ramgram

The king of Koliya received a share of one eighth part of Budda's relic after the cremation of lord Buddha then the king made a relic stupa on the bank of Jhrahi river which is called Ramgram stupa. It is located 3 km south of headquarter of Nawal Parasi district, which is about 48 km south-east of Lumbini.

The Chinese traveler Hiuen Tsiang visited Ramgram in 7th century describes Ramgram as sparsely populated old city, where he saw a relic stupa made of brick which was believed to be enshrined with Buddha's relic stupa and he also write that the wild elephants and snakes give security to the stupa, where he saw flash out the light from the center of stupa which is the sign of good luck.

According to the Buddhist literature, The emperor Ashoka, who already took out other seven relic from stupa and from that relic he has made 84000 stupas so as he thought of taking out 8th original relic from stupa of Ramgram and starting to digging them. All of a sudden a man from the river appeared and asked to stop the work, he also warn Ashoka not to take out the relic from stupa. He said his story that when he was a king, he had also tried to take out relic and he got the punishment for doing that. Then he came out and showed his lower part, which was similar to that of snake and he disappeared from there. After that Ashoka drop down the idea to take out relic from stupa. So, this is the only one original relic stupa of lord Buddha and the most important to Buddhism, archaeologist, Nepal and to the whole world.