CLASS 10
THE SERMON AT BENARES
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Question
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At twelve, he was sent away for schooling in the Hindu sacred scriptures and four years later he returned home to marry a princess. They had a son and lived for ten years as befitted royalty. At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms.15. How old was Siddhartha when he renounced the princely life?
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22
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32
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35
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25
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Gautama Buddha (563 B.C.-483 B.C.) began life as a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, in northern India. At twelve, he was sent away for schooling in the Hindu sacred scriptures and four years later he returned home to marry a princess. They had a son and lived for ten years as befitted royalty.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the age of 12, he was sent away for schooling in Hindu sacred scriptures and four years later he got married to a princess. Question 3.
Detailed explanation-3: -’As befitted royalty’ means that they lived as a king and queen should.
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