page_title: Rāhula
hierarchical_section_title: Rāhula
caption_attribution_description: English: Young Prince Rahula prompted by his mother to ask for his inheritance, left behind by the Buddha after His renunciation. Instead, the Buddha told Venerable Sariputta (Sariputra) to ordain Prince Rahula, giving him a spiritual inheritance better than the one he asked for.မြန်မာဘာသာ: မြတ်စွာဘုရားသည် ခမည်းတော်ဘုရင် သူဒ္ဓေါဒနမင်းကြီး၏ အကြိမ်ကြိမ် ပင့်လျှောက်ခြင်းကြောင့် ကပိလဝတ္တု နေပြည်တော်သို့ ရောက်၍ ခုနှစ်ရက်မြောက်သောနေ့၌ ယသော်ဓရာ မင်းသမီးသည် သားတော်ရာဟုလာ မင်းသားကို ကောင်းစွာဝတ်စား ဆင်ယင်ပေးပြီးလျှင် သားငယ်ရာဟုလာဘုရင်မင်းတို့၏ အသွင်အပြင်နှင့် မခြားသံဃာတော်တို့၏ အလည်၌ တင့်တယ်စွာ စံပယ်တော်မူလျက် ရှိသောအရှင်သူမြတ်သည်ကား သင်၏ ဖခင်ရင်းဖြစ်ပေသည်၊ အနီးသို့သွား၍ အမွေအနှစ်များတောင်းချေ ဟုညွှန်ပြ ပြောဆိုလေ၏။ ရာဟုလာမင်းသားလေးသည် မိခင်သွန်သင်ပြောကြားသည့် အတိုင်းဘုရားရှင်ထံမှောက်သို့ သွား၍ လောကီအမွေအနှစ်များကို တောင်းခံလေသည်။ ထိုအခါဘုရားရှင်သည် သားတော်ရာဟုလာအားလောကီအမွအနှစ်ထက်အဆပေါင်းများစွာ သာလွန်မွန်မြတ်သော လောကုတ္တရာ အမွေအနှစ်များကို ပေးလိုသဖြင့် သားတော်ရာဟုလာမင်းသားကို ရှင်သာမဏေပြုပေးရန် အရှင်သာရိပုတ္တရာအား မိန့်ကြားတော်မူလေ၏။Português: O desenho retrata o jovem príncipe Ráula, incitado por sua mãe, pedindo ao Buda, seu pai, a sua herança. Buda, ao invés disso, diz a Sariputra para ordenar Ráula monge, dando-lhe, desta forma, uma herança mais valiosa do que a que desejava a mãe de Ráula.
context_page_description: Rāhula was the only son of Siddhārtha Gautama, and his wife and princess Yaśodharā. He is mentioned in numerous Buddhist texts, from the early period onward. Accounts about Rāhula indicate a mutual impact between Prince Siddhārtha's life and the lives of his family members. According to the Pāli tradition, Rāhula was born on the day of Prince Siddhārta's renunciation, and was therefore named Rāhula, meaning a fetter on the path to enlightenment. According to the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition, and numerous other later sources, however, Rāhula was only conceived on the day of Prince Siddhartha's renunciation, and was born six years later, when Prince Siddhārtha became enlightened as the Buddha. This long gestation period was explained by bad karma from previous lives of both Yaśodharā and of Rāhula himself, although more naturalistic reasons are also given. As a result of the late birth, Yaśodharā needed to prove that Rāhula was really Prince Siddhārtha's son, which she eventually did successfully by an act of truth. Historian H.W.
context_section_description: Rāhula (Pāli and Sanskrit) was the only son of Siddhārtha Gautama (commonly known as the Buddha)  (c. 563 or 480 – 483 or 400 BCE), and his wife and princess Yaśodharā. He is mentioned in numerous Buddhist texts, from the early period onward. Accounts about Rāhula indicate a mutual impact between Prince Siddhārtha's life and the lives of his family members. According to the Pāli tradition, Rāhula was born on the day of Prince Siddhārta's renunciation, and was therefore named Rāhula, meaning a fetter on the path to enlightenment. According to the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition, and numerous other later sources, however, Rāhula was only conceived on the day of Prince Siddhartha's renunciation, and was born six years later, when Prince Siddhārtha became enlightened as the Buddha. This long gestation period was explained by bad karma from previous lives of both Yaśodharā and of Rāhula himself, although more naturalistic reasons are also given. As a result of the late birth, Yaśodharā needed to prove that Rāhula was really Prince Siddhārtha's son, which she eventually did successfully by an act of truth. Historian H.W. Schumann has argued that Prince Siddhārtha conceived Rāhula and waited for his birth, to be able to leave the palace with the king and queen's permission, but Orientalist Noël Péri considered it more likely that Rāhula was born after Prince Siddhārtha left his palace.
  Between seven and fifteen years after Rāhula was born, the Buddha returned to his hometown, where Yaśodharā had Rāhula ask the Buddha for the throne of the Śākya clan. The Buddha responded by having Rāhula ordained as the first Buddhist novice monk. He taught the young novice about truth, self-reflection, and not-self, eventually leading to Rāhula's enlightenment. Although early accounts state that Rāhula died before the Buddha did, later tradition has it that Rāhula was one of the disciples that outlived the Buddha, guarding the Buddha's Dispensation until the rising of the next Buddha. Rāhula is known in Buddhist texts for his eagerness for learning, and was honored by novice monks and nuns throughout Buddhist history. His accounts have led to a perspective in Buddhism of seeing children as hindrances to the spiritual life on the one hand, and as people with potential for enlightenment on the other hand.
caption: Rāhula asking the inheritance from the Buddha
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