HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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a warrior prince who turned away from violence after wiping out a city
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a prince who gave up his luxurious life to find enlightenment
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a king who ruled the Gupta Empire during its Golden Age
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a leader of the non-violent opposition to British colonial rule in India
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Detailed explanation-1: -Siddhartha Gautama (better known as the Buddha, l. c. 563-c. 483 BCE) was, according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kaundinya was the first disciple of Lord Buddha and the first to become an arahant. Kaundinya was a Brahmin who lived and worked as a royal court scholar at Kapilvastu (now in Lumbini of Nepal ) under King Suddhodhana of the Shakyas.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic (Sanskrit: śramaṇa). After leading a life of begging, asceticism, and meditation, he attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in what is now India.