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Yasodhara
Yasodhara was the wife of Siddhartha Gautama, better known as Buddha Shakyamuni. Married to the future Buddha at the age of sixteen, Yasodhara was the mother of his son, Rahula. The Buddha abandoned Yasodhara when he left to pursue a life of meditation and asceticism.
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Yasodhara