RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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Question
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The man who became the Buddha was born a ____
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prince.
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pauper.
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merchant.
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farmer.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -He was born Siddhartha Gautama of the Shaka clan.
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