# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asita
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:52:59.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asita"
name: "Asita"
slug: "asita"
description: "Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic, a sage and seer, depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India. He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, 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 Buddha."
tagline: "Ascetic who predicted that prince Siddhartha (later Buddha) would become a great religious leader"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Weissagung_des_Sehers_Asita_Museum_Rietberg_RVI_11.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "-450"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.1
  momentum:             0.184331797235023
  historical:           10.75720133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-t%C6%B0-%C4%91%C3%A0"
    title: "A-tư-đà"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "أسيتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4"
    title: "অসিত"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4"
    title: "অসিত"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asita"
    title: "Asita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asita"
    title: "Asita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asita"
    title: "Asita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%98%D7%94"
    title: "אסיטה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4"
    title: "असित"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aszita"
    title: "Aszita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asita"
    title: "Asita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "அசிதர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "اسیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4807039"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump