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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 ...
Yaśodharā was the daughter of King Suppabuddha [6] [7] and Amitā.She was born on the same day in the month of Vaishaka as prince Siddhartha.Her grandfather was Añjana, a Koliya [8] chief, her father was Suppabuddha and her mother, Amitā, came from a Shakya family.
Maya (/ ˈ m ɑː j ə /; Devanagari: माया, IAST: māyā), also known as Mahāmāyā and Māyādevī, was the queen of Shakya and the birth mother of Gautama Buddha, the sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. She was the wife of Śuddhodana, the king of the Shakya kingdom.
Mahāpajāpatī was both the Buddha's maternal aunt and adoptive mother, [2] raising him after her sister Maya, the Buddha's birth mother, died. She raised Siddhartha as if he were her own child. [6] An eminent Therī, Mahāpajāpatī was born at Devdaha as the younger sister of Māyā. [7]
Legend has it that, on the night Siddhartha was conceived, Queen Maya dreamt that a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side, [135] [136] and ten months later [137] Siddhartha was born. As was the Shakya tradition, when his mother Queen Maya became pregnant, she left Kapilavastu for her father's kingdom to give birth.
Prince Siddhartha was born in Lumbini while Queen Maya Devi was on her way to Devdaha. [8] Queen Maya Devi died on the seventh day of Siddhartha's birth. He was then brought up by his second mother, Queen Prajapati Gautami. During his childhood, Prince Siddhartha paid several visits to Devdaha.
Rāhula was born on same day Prince Siddhārtha Gautama renounced the throne by leaving the palace, [9] when the prince was 29 years old, [1] [2] [note 1] on the full moon day of the eight lunar month of the ancient Indian calendar. [13] That day, Prince Siddhārtha was preparing himself to leave the palace.
Śuddhodana's father was Sihahanu and his mother was Kaccanā. Śuddhodana's chief consort was Maha Maya, with whom he had Siddhartha Gautama (who later became known as Shakyamuni, the "Sage of the Shakyas", or the Buddha). Maya died shortly after Siddhartha was born.