She was married to her cousin King Suddhodana, who ruled in the kingdom of Kapilavastu. Maya was the mother of the Buddha and was from the Koliyan clan. Queen Māyā's white elephant dream, and the conception of the Buddha.
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Gautama later returned again to his father's kingdom to see his father's death. The Buddha also preached the dharma to him and Kaludayi was later ordained as a monk.Īfter this request from his father Gautama Buddha returned to his father's kingdom where he preached dharma to him. Later, a friend of Suddhodana named Kaludayi invited the Buddha to return, at the request of Suddhodana. After the Buddha preached the dharma to the messengers, they were all ordained into the sangha. Suddhodana was said to be greatly troubled by the departure of his son and is reported in Buddhist scriptures to have sent 10,000 messengers to plead with Gautama to return. Siddhartha was the son born to Queen Maya, who later became Buddha.Prajapati Gotami had a daughter Sundari Nanda and a son Nanda with Suddhodana.According to Theravada texts Sundari Nanda was the eldest among his three children.While Siddhartha was the second born and Nanda was the youngest of the family. Queen Maya was the eldest daughter of Koliya king Anjana and Prajapati Gotami was the youngest daughter. Suddhodana married two Princesses from koliya kingdom.He was the only king who had more than one queen of his clan. Suddhodana's father was King Sinahana mother was Queen Kachchana. Although in Buddhist literature he is said to be a hereditary monarch, he is now believed to have been an elected head of a tribal confederacy. He is believed to be a leader of the Shakya clan, who lived within the state of Kosala, on the northern border of Ancient India. Much of the information on Suddhodana comes from Buddhist legend and scripture. The sculpture depicts a scene where three soothsayers are interpreting to King Suddhodana the dream of Queen Maya. Both Yashodhara and Rāhula later became disciples of Buddha. Separated from the world, he later married Yaśodharā (Yaśodharā was the daughter of King Suppabuddha and Amita), and together they had one child: a son named Rāhula. To make sure the boy would be a great king and world ruler, his father isolated him in his palace and he was raised by his mother's younger sister, Mahapajapati Gotami, after his mother died just seven days after childbirth.
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If the child left home, however, he would become a universal spiritual leader. A prophecy indicated that, if the child stayed at home, he was destined to become a world ruler. According to Buddhist legends, the baby exhibited the marks of a great man. His father was king Śuddhodana, leader of the Shakya clan in what was the growing state of Kosala, and his mother was queen Maya. He was called Siddhartha Gautama in his childhood. The Buddha was born into a noble family of the kshatriyas in Lumbini in 563 BCE as per historical events and 624 BCE according to Buddhist tradition.