Asita
Sign in to saveAsita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic, a sage and seer, depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India. He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama Buddha.
Person · Open Library
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- 13
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- Akṭopasa
- Arūle nacineko 'Ma'
- Bhāratīya Nepālī sāhityako vikāsakrama
- Cinhārīko khoja
- Dr̥shtihīna dr̥shṭi
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Active from
- 1961-10-07
- Active to
- 2012-12-17
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 26
- Total plays
- 153
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Recent publications · Crossref
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- Adverse reactions to snake antivenom, and their prevention and treatment
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Key facts
- Religious biography/Wikidata.image
- Weissagung des Sehers Asita Museum Rietberg RVI 11.jpg
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- The prophecy of the seer Asita, slate relief from Gandhara, 3rd/4th century AD (Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Inv. No. RVI 11)
- Religious biography/Wikidata.religion
- Buddhism
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Encyclopedic overview
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Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic, a sage and seer, depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India. He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama Buddha.
The name Asita literally means 'not clinging' while Kanhasiri means 'dark splendour'. Asita is described as a tāpasa, a practitioner of asceticism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.