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The Bodhisattva's maternal family was eight hundred li away from the city of Kapilavastu (translated in Jin as 'Wonderful Virtue'); their surname was Gautama, and he ruled as a minor king over one million households, named King Yiyi (from the Shi'er you jing. The 'Genealogy of Śākya Entrusting His Birth to the Royal Palace' calls him King Yiyi, placed next beneath King Śākya the Younger. It also states that the Bodhisattva's mother was named Māyā, and Nanda's mother was named Gautamī, who is Mahāprajāpatī).

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