GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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Buddha’s faith in non-violence
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Devadatta’s suggestions for making the followers the forest-dwellers.
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Buddha’s desire not to allow the women to enter the samgha.
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Buddha’s desire to abandon the life of a renunciate after ten years.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was a cousin of the Buddha. Devadatta is said to have joined the sangha along with Ananda, who was possibly his brother, in the 20th year of the Buddha’s ministry.
Detailed explanation-2: -King Bimbisara had a son, Prince Ajatasattu, who was a good friend of the Buddha’s enemy, Devadatta. The two spent much time together and soon Devadatta had convinced the young prince to kill his father.
Detailed explanation-3: -The name Devadatta means god-given in Palī and Sanskrit. It is composed from the stem form of deva ("god") and the past participle datta of the verb da ("to give"), composed as a tatpuruṣa compound. In the Bhagavad Gītā, the conch shell used by Arjuna on the battle-field of Kurukshetra was named Devadatta.