INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Who among the following belonged to Sakya clan of Kshatriyas? Notes: Gautama Buddha belongs to Sakya clan of Kshatriyas. They lived in the area near Magadha. His mother is Maya devi and father is Suddhodana .

Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest Buddhist sources state that the Buddha was born to an aristocratic Kshatriya (Pali: khattiya) family called Gotama (Sanskrit: Gautama), who were part of the Shakyas, a tribe of rice-farmers living near the modern border of India and Nepal.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was called Siddhartha Gautama in his childhood. His father was king Śuddhodana, leader of the Shakya clan in what was the growing state of Kosala, and his mother was queen Maya. According to Buddhist legends, the baby exhibited the marks of a great man.

Detailed explanation-4: -Buddha belonged to a small gana called the Sakya gana. He was also a kshatriya.

Detailed explanation-5: -Siddhartha’s family was of the Gautama clan. His mother, Queen Mahamaya, gave birth to him in the park of Lumbini, in what is now southern Nepal.