page_title: Yaśodharā
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Yaśodharā / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: The royal marriage of Prince Siddhattha and Princess Yasodhara (Bhadda-Kancana) celebrated with great splendour at the Golden Palace, presented by his father King Suddhodana. The celebration lasted many days.မြန်မာဘာသာ: သိဒ္ဓတ္ထ မင်းသားနှင့် ဘဒ္ဒကဉ္စနာ မင်းသမီးတို့၏ဘိသိက်မင်္ဂလာ လက်ထပ်ပွဲ သဘင်ကို ရွှေနန်းမဆောင်ကြီး မှာ ကြီးကျယ်ခန်းနား စွာကျင်းမရန် ခမည်းတော် သုဒ္ဓေါဒန မင်းကြီးက သဘောတူ နှစ်သက်တော်မူလေသည်။ ယင်း မင်္ဂလာပွဲကြီးကို ပျော်ရွှင်ချမ်းမြေ့ဘွယ်ရာ အထွေထွေ ပြည့်နှက် နေသည့် ရွှေနန်းမတေဆာင်ကြီးတွင် ပျော်ရွှင်ဘွယ်ရာ အဖုံဖုံ တို့ဖြင့် စုံလင်စွာ ရက်ပေါင်း အတော်ကြာ ဆင်ယင်ကျင်းပ ပြုလုပ်ကြ ပေသည်။ (မှတ်ချက်) ဘိသိတ်မင်္ဂလာ ပွဲကြီး အပြီးတွင် ဘဒ္ဒကဉ္စနာ မင်းသမီးယသော်ဓရာ ဟူသော ဘွဲ့အမည်ဖြင့်တင်စား ခေါ်ဝေါ်ကြလေသည်။ မူလအမည်မှာ ဘဒ္ဒကဉ္စနာ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
context_page_description: Yaśodharā was the wife of Prince Siddhartha —till he left his home to become a śramaṇa—the mother of Rāhula, and the sister of Devadatta. She later became a bhikkhunī and is considered an arahatā.
context_section_description: Yaśodhara was the daughter of King Suppabuddha, and Amita, sister of the Buddha's father, King Śuddhodana. She was born on same day in the month of "Vaishaka" as prince  Siddhartha. Her grandfather was Añjana a Koliya chief, her father was Suppabuddha and her mother, Amitā, came from a Shakya family. The Shakya and the Koliya were branches of the Ādicca (Sanskrit: Aditya) or Ikshvaku dynasty. There were no other families considered equal to them in the region and therefore members of these two royal families married only among themselves.
  She was wedded to her cousin, the Shakya prince Siddhartha, when they were both 16. At the age of 29, she gave birth to their only child, a boy named Rāhula. On the 7th night of his birth, the prince left the palace. Yaśodharā was devastated and overcome with grief.  Once prince Siddhartha left his home at night for enlightenment, With the approval of Yashodhara but without letting anyone else know. The next day, everyone was surprised by the absence of the prince. Later, when she came to know that he had left, Yashodhara decided to start leading a simple life. Although relatives sent her messages to say that they would maintain her, she did not take up those offers. Several princes sought her hand but she rejected the proposals. Throughout his six-year absence, Princess Yaśodharā followed the news of his actions closely.
  When the Buddha visited Kapilavastu after enlightenment, Yaśodharā did not go to see her former husband but ask Rahula to go to Buddha to seek inheritance. For herself, she thought: "Surely if I have gained any virtue at all the Lord will come to my presence." In order to fulfill her wish, Buddha came into her presence and admired her patience and sacrifice.
  Some time after her son Rāhula became a novice monk, Yaśodharā also entered the Order of Monks and Nuns and within time attained the state of an arahat. She was ordained as bhikkhuni with the five hundred women following Mahapajapati Gotami that first established the bhikkhuni order. She died at 78, two years before Buddha's parinirvana (death).
caption: The wedding celebrations of Yaśodhara and Siddhattha, depicted in Burmese fashion.
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