BUDHISM. 



the Christian era. His father was a sovereign prince named 

 Sudhodana. (6.) He was called the Prince Siddharta, and 

 lived in regal splendour till his 29th year. About that time 

 he became disgusted with sensual pleasures 5. considered the 

 circumstances of disease, decrepitude and death, and being 

 desirous of obtaining deliverance from the continual repro- 

 duction of existence, embraced the life of an ascetic and re- 

 tired to the wilderness. His object appears to have been two- 

 fold: 1st, To obtain that complete freedom from the passions 

 and affections which would ensure the entire cessation of his 

 own personal existence : and 2nd, That he might attain to 

 that perfection of wisdom and knowledge which would ena- 

 ble him to teach others the paths of perfect liberty. For 

 this purpose, during six years, he performed painful pe- 

 nances, and his abstinence from food was such that his body 

 was reduced to a skeleton ; and, completely exhausted, he 

 fainted and was regarded by his associates as dead. He how- 

 ever revived, and finding no advantage from this course of 

 life he abandoned it, and took the sustenance necessary for 

 the restoration of his bodily strength, and with renewed en- 



pajaya sadewemanussaya anuttaran samma sambhodin abhisam- 

 buddho patinyasin, — O priests ! when my perception, relative to 

 these four grand truths, which are threefold, and therefore of 

 twelve kinds, was perfectly clear, then, O priests, I knew I had 

 acquired the most complete and perfect wisdom attainable in the 

 universe, including the human, heavenly and Brahma worlds." 



In the Aggappasadana Suttan, Buddha is said to have had no 

 preceptor «3<s*©cp)95<^c83q!C3§ name achariyo atthi. 



(6) In the Mahapadane Suttan, Buddha says "©cso t8<S)Qs€) 



«58c©®& ecodo Ood <^3^ Mayan Bikkkawe eterahi suddho- 

 dano name pita ahdsy maya dewi mata janetty kapilawatthu na- 

 garan rajadhanithi. — Priests ! my father's name was Suddhodano,. 

 Queen Maya was my mother, Kapilawatthu was my native city, " 



