Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini, Nepal around the year 563 BC. He was the son of two important great people. Siddhartha's father's name was Shuddhodana, the King of the Sakyas. His mother, Queen Maya, was a lady "of perfect form and bee-black tresses, fearless in heart and full of grace and virtue." Siddhartha got his name from one of his mother's dreams. When she told her husband about her dream, he called Brahmins, or taught men to interpret it. They predicted that the child one-day would be the greatest king in the world or the greatest ascetic in the world. …
