Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c11.7.1

v1.c11.7.1

Jayasena | Devadahasakka of Devadaha --- | --- Sihahanu (=Kaccānā) Yasodharā | Añjana (=Yasodharā) Kaccānā Suddhodano and his 4 brothers (=Māyā and Pajāpati) and two sisters Amitā & Pamitā | Māyā Pajāpati Daṇḍapāṇi Suppabuddha (=Amitā) Siddhārtha | Bhaddakaccānā Devadatta Rāhula (=Bhaddakaccānā) | with the traditional custom acquired the arts that behoved the sons of the nobility of the clans, and secured for him the due recognition as a prince of physical valour and prowess. He was given in marriage to the daughter of another chieftain of the same clan. He lived with her a few years of ease and luxury and had a son named Rāhula. During the adolescence period of Siddhārtha, the Śākyas, it seems, were passing through peaceful times, living on their own agricultural produce, the troubles having been encountered by them a few years later after the retirement of Siddhārtha.¹ It is not unoften the case in India or elsewhere that all the luxuries of the world cannot bring peace of mind to a few, the giants among men, who feel an inward impulse to cast away to winds the things that give pleasure to the average mind and hanker after the unknown and the unknowable. Prince Siddhārtha was one of these few. He preferred to eschew his dear wife and newly born babe, his kingly pomp and power to embrace the lonely life of a recluse, living on fruits or the gifts of charitably disposed persons.