Father of Siddhartha / Buddha King Suddhodana, who is of Shakyan caste, is a righteous king who rules over Kapilavastu. As a young prince he excelled in warfare and swordsmanship. He is an ideal husband and a loving father, a simple and honest person, living for his family and for the people of his kingdom. He is able, just and righteous and has always been yearning for a son since marriage, and when he is blessed with a son, he is worried for his son's welfare as he is destined to leave the house and lead a life of a sanyasi. Buddha visits Kapilavastu to give his last discourse to his dying father. On hearing the Dhamma, King Suddhodana attained Arahanthship (a perfected one who has attained nirvana). The Buddha is about forty years old at the time of His father's death.
Sage and Guru Asit is a sage and was the Kul Guru of Sihahanu, father of king Suddhodana and was the teacher of the Suddhodana when he was a child. He is highly respected by King Suddhodana. Asit renounces the world and lives a life of recluse in the Himalaya's meditating and has developed various siddhi powers. On learning of Siddhartha's birth through his yogic powers, he immediately goes to King Suddhodana palace and asks to see the child and declares the new born will be the King of Kings.
Paternal Aunt to Siddhartha Wife of Dronodana and mother of Devdutt; She is a princess of Koliya and was hopeful that King Suddhodana will marry her; but Suddhodana marries Mahanama and as a result she has to marry Dronodana. She is a cunning and vicious woman and these traits she ingrains in her son Devdutt.
Paternal Aunt to Siddhartha Wife of Dronodana and mother of Devdutt; She is a princess of Koliya and was hopeful that King Suddhodana will marry her; but Suddhodana marries Mahanama and as a result she has to marry Dronodana. She is a cunning and vicious woman and these traits she ingrains in her son Devdutt.
Queen My of Sakya (Mydev) was the birth mother of Gautama Buddha, the sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded, and the sister of Mahpajpati Goutami, the first Buddhist nun ordained by the Buddha.. In Buddhist tradition Maya died soon after the birth of Buddha, generally said to be seven days afterwards, and came to life again in a Buddhist heaven, a pattern that is said to be followed in the births of all Buddhas.[1] Thus Maya did not raise her son who was instead raised by his maternal aunt Mahapajapati Gotami Maya would, however, on occasion descend from Heaven to give advice to her son.
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhrtha Gautama,Shakyamunior simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.A native of the ancient Shakya republic in the Himalayan foothills,Gautama Buddha taught primarily in northeastern India.
She plays Wife of Buddha ho would eventually bear him a son.
She is younger sister of Mahadevi Mahamaya and younger queen of King Shuddhodhana.. She is both maternal aunt and step mother of Gautama Buddha..she raised Sidhartha after Mahamaya passed away.. she was first bhikkhuni
