Dear Bryan,
Here is an excerpt from my translation of the Ariya Pariyesana Sutta (M
16.14), where the notes might contain some info that you are looking for:
*14* *Renunciation*. Bhikshus, later, while still young, a
black-haired young man endowed with the blessing of youth, in the prime of
life, though my mother and father wished otherwise and wept with tearful
faces, I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the saffron robe, and went
forth from the household life into the homeless
life.[1]<
https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftn1>
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[1]<
https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ftnref1>This
same statement is made mutatis mutandis by So
öa,daö¶a (*So**ö**a,da**ö**¶**a S,* D 4.6/1:115 = SD 30.5), by Kè a,danta (
*K**è** **a,danta S, *D 5.7/1:131 = SD 22.8(7a)), and by Caṇkī (*Caṅkī S, *M
95.9/2:167 = SD 21.15), all of which say that he is “from a high
family” (*uccā
kulā*”). The Vinaya records the Buddha as having gone forth from a kshatriya
family (*khattiya,kula*): *Culla,vagga* 6.2 (V 2:161). A stock passage
speaks of the Buddha as “the recluse Gotama, a Sakya son who went forth from
the Sakya clan” (*samaṇo...gotamo sakya,putto sakya,kulā pabbajito*):* Mv 22
*.2/V 1:35; *D 4.2*/1:111, *13.7/*1:236; *M 41*.2/1:285; *S 55/*7.2/5:352; A
* 3.63*.1*/*1:180; *Sn* p103.
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With best wishes,
Piya Tan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Bryan Levman <bryan.levman@...>wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know of references in the Paali writings to Buddha's caste,
> family, etc? I know he is supposed to be of the khattiya (warrior) caste as
> his father was Suddhodana, a king, but I'm not sure of the source of this
> data. It is in Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita, and the Lalitavistara sutra but
> those works are quite late, certainly in the common era.
> The earliest biographical work I know of in the Paali sciptures is the
> Ariyapariyesanaa sutta (Noble search; MN I 160f) which says nothing about
> caste or family except that he left home when still young, against his
> parents' wishes. Has anybody come across references to Buddha's family,
> caste, parents, gotta, etc.anywhere else in the suttas?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Bryan
>
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