His family was native to the plains of Lumbini, in what is now southern Nepal.
The capital was almost out of fuel and transport of supplies caused by a crippling general strike in southern Nepal on February 17, 2008.
In southern Nepal the septum piercing is still common.
It is practiced usually in the tarai regions of southern Nepal.
Kamaiya is a traditional system of bonded labour in southern Nepal.
The fourth, Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, is now in southern Nepal.
It is also present in parts of southern Nepal and eastern Pakistan.
It is found in southern Nepal (it was described from Tarai).
But forget southern Nepal's painful elephant rides.
Bijalpura is a town in southern Nepal, near the border with India.