Question

How did Gautama come to be known as the Buddha?

ICSE Class 9 History Ch 4 India in the 6th Century BC :Rise of Jainism and Buddhism

Answer 1

Gautama was a prince and when he was born an astrologist said that rather he will become a warrior or a sanyasi so the decided not to tell him truth of life so whenever he used to go outside many soldiers also go with him and he unseen of people like those are sick or a dead body and he became a good warrior but at one midnight when everyone was asleep he heard some painfull voice of an aged man and went outside there he saw more than one pain of life and decided to leave everything went on the path of love and devotion for god and from that day he named himself buddha