Saunaraniya (legally 'Sonarniya') is a village development committee in Rautahat District in Maulapur Municipality in Madhesh Pradesh of Nepal after Nepal started using a Provincial government. It's in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. It is a small village between Maulapur and Inarwamal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3763 people living in 689 individual households.