Question

Who took care of lord buddha after his mother death?

Answer 1

IT IS SAID THAT MAYA, the Buddha’s mother, died a week after childbirth. Although the narratives depict a blissful pregnancy, free of fatigue and pain, she was not so lucky after delivery. There appears to have been some cause for concern after her delivery, but it is unclear if this was due to bleeding, infection, or other complications. What the early texts do state is that Maya delivered the Buddha in the Lumbini grove, on her way to visit her natal home, rather than in her husband’s palace, which may suggest a precipitous labor. This detail points to the custom of women visiting their natal homes during pregnancy, a custom still practiced in parts of Buddhist India today. Like Maya, women who are pregnant for the first time in Buddhist Kashmir still travel to their natal homes, where they may be better fed and taken care of than in their marital homes under the watchful eyes of in-laws. However, to this day an ideology in both Buddhist and Brahmanic culture considers giving birth to be a polluting event and suggests that women should return to their marital homes for delivery. In both traditions, adverse medical outcomes at birth can be blamed on women whose actions have offended local spirits or male religious leaders.

That textual records of Maya’s gestation, delivery, and death have survived for twenty-five hundred years is nothing short of remarkable. Most of the world’s historical records rarely—if ever—provided details of pregnancies or deaths in childbirth, given that such deaths were too mundane to mention in a record largely written by and for men. The rare depictions of maternal deaths tended to be for unique women who shaped empires: Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan; Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar; Charlotte Bonaparte, Napoléon Bonaparte’s niece; Empress Xiaochengren of the Qing Dynasty; and Anna of Austria, the queen of Spain. But while we know of a few famous women who died in childbirth, we don’t know the names of the ten million women who have died in childbirth since 1990. Even today, after significant reductions in maternal mortality across the globe, roughly eight hundred women die every day from complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Their stories largely remain untold, and their deaths are all too often uncounted.

Answer 2

IT IS SAID THAT MAYA, the Buddha’s mother, died a week after childbirth. Although the narratives depict a blissful pregnancy, free of fatigue and pain, she was not so lucky after delivery. There appears to have been some cause for concern after her delivery, but it is unclear if this was due to bleeding, infection, or other complications. What the early texts do state is that Maya delivered the Buddha in the Lumbini grove, on her way to visit her natal home, rather than in her husband’s palace, which may suggest a precipitous labor. This detail points to the custom of women visiting their natal homes during pregnancy, a custom still practiced in parts of Buddhist India today. Like Maya, women who are pregnant for the first time in Buddhist Kashmir still travel to their natal homes, where they may be better fed and taken care of than in their marital homes under the watchful eyes of in-laws. However, to this day an ideology in both Buddhist and Brahmanic culture considers giving birth to be a polluting event and suggests that women should return to their marital