Siddhartha or Siddharta is the birth name of the historical and religious figure Gautama Buddha, known as the Buddha. Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE. Siddharta and Siddhartha redirect here. ... A stone image of the Buddha. ...
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Siddhartha (book), a fictional book about the life of a man (not the Buddha) named Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
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Born Siddhartha Gautama in Sanskrit, a name meaning 'descendant of Gotama whose aims are achieved/who is efficacious in achieving aims', he later became the Buddha (literally Enlightened One or Awakened One).
According to tradition, Siddhartha Gautama was a Prince, and a member of the Kshatriya warrior caste.
Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini (a town situated in modern Nepal, near the Indian border) under the full moon of May to the clan of the Shakyas, a warrior tribe.
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