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Princess Yaśodharā was the wife of Siddhartha who later became Gautama Buddha.She was the daughter of Koliya king Suppabuddha and Queen Amitha. Siddhartha and Yaśodharā were first cousins.Yaśodharā's father was the brother of Queen Maya and Mahapajapati Gotami while Her mother Amitha was the sister of King Suddhodana. Yaśodharā was ...
Śuddhodana (Sanskrit: शुद्धोदन; Pali: Suddhodana), meaning "he who grows pure rice," [3] was the father of Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha. [4] He was a leader of the Shakya, who lived in an oligarchic republic, with their capital at Kapilavastu.
His father was the king of the Sakya clan. After the birth of his son, King Śuddhodana called upon eight Brahmins to predict his son's future. While seven of them declared that the prince would either be a Buddha or a great king, the Brahmin Kaundinya was confident that he would renounce the world and become a Buddha. [1]
[224] [225] They also tell of how the Buddha's son, Rahula, joined his father as a bhikkhu when the Buddha visited his old home, Kapilavastu. [226] Over time, other Shakyans joined the order as bhikkhus, such as Buddha's cousin Ananda , Anuruddha , Upali the barber, the Buddha's half-brother Nanda and Devadatta .
Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India.He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, a sage and seer, the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama ...
According to the Theri-apadāna, Gotamī started on the path of the Dhamma during the time of Padumuttara Buddha, when she was born to a wealthy family in Hamsavati.She witnessed Padumuttara Buddha place his aunt, a bhikkhuni, in a senior position, and aspired to achieve the same position after providing offerings to the Buddha and his followers for seven days.
Kapilavastu is the place where Siddhartha Gautama spent the first 29 years of his life. According to Buddhist sources the name Kapilvatthu means "tawny area", due to the abundance of reddish sand in the area. [3] [4] Most foreign accounts from the medieval period, particularly from China, described Kapilavastu as being part of "Central India". [5]
The father of the Buddha was called Suddhodana, "Who grows pure rice," and belonged to the tribe of the Sakiya. The Sakiya's were Khattiya's and thus belonged to the (then) highest caste, the martial caste, or better: nobility of office, tasked with the administration and enforcement of the Sakiya republic.