where did prince sidharta use to live
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Answer:
Historical Context. At the time when Siddhartha Gautama lived, Northern India was composed of numerous and small independent states competing for resources.
Explanation:
What we know about the life of the historical Buddha can be sketched from legends. One of the most beautiful literary renderings of the story is told by Ashvaghosha in the first century CE. Prince Siddhartha Gautama is said to have been born in the royal Shakya family, some say in the year 563 BCE, in a place called Lumbini, which is located in present-day Nepal, at the foothills of the Himalayas. At the time of his birth, seers foretold that he would either become a great king or an enlightened teacher. If the prince were to see the “four passing sights”—old age, sickness, death, and a wandering ascetic—he would renounce his royal life and seek enlightenment.
His father, the king, was determined that his son become a great ruler and tried to shield Prince Siddhartha from these four realities of life. However, at age 29, Siddhartha, with his charioteer, went out of the protected palace grounds and, for the first time, encountered suffering, which he understood to be an inevitable part of life. He saw four sights: a man bent with old age, a person afflicted with sickness, a corpse, and a wandering ascetic. It was the fourth sight, that of a wandering ascetic, that filled Siddhartha with a sense of urgency to find out what lay at the root of human suffering.