Śuddhodana
King of Shakya Kingdom · Nepal · Politicians · Born 600 BC
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Something wrong?He tried to build a world soft enough to keep his son from ever wanting to leave - and in doing so, set in motion the man who would walk away from everything.
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(Left) King Suddhodana asks brahmins to intertret the Queen's Wellcome L0030754
002 The Birth and King Suddhadana
013 King Suddhodana Hears of His Sons Renunciation
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016 The Marraige of King Suddhodana and Queen Maya (34443939153)
020 Presenting the Baby to King SuddhodanaFamily
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Śuddhodana led the Shakya, an oligarchic republic centered at Kapilavastu, in what is now the borderlands between India and Nepal. His name meant "he who grows pure rice." His son, Siddhartha Gautama, would become the Buddha. Later Buddhist tradition elevated Śuddhodana to the status of king, though modern scholars dispute whether he held that title - the Shakya operated as a republic, not a monarchy. What remains undisputed is the departure: the father who raised him could not hold him.
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