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India Reacts as Nepal Fumes Over Jaishankar's Remark; Some Link Vyas, Valmiki to Hill Nation
News 18India on Sunday dismissed the controversy over the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, saying External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's remarks on him was about "our shared Buddhist heritage" and there's "no doubt" that the founder of Buddhism was born in Nepal's Lumbini. Earlier, Nepalese Foreign Ministry raised objection over Jaishankar's remark quoted in the Nepalese media, saying "it is a well-established and undeniable fact proven by historical evidence that Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal." Former prime minister and senior leader of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal said the alleged statement made by Jaishankar that Buddha was a great Indian is "baseless and objectionable". Nepal's former foreign secretary Madhuraman Acharya tweeted: "If the enlightenment and preaching in India is to be used to claim that Buddha was an Indian, then most of the Rishi’s munis like Vyas, Valmiki and Patanjali who India claims to be their own are Nepalis because they medidated, wrote treatises and achieved moksha in Nepal!"
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