Talk:Maya (mother of the Buddha)

Queen Maya of Sakya
Shouldn't the Kolyan clan be mentioned, too?
 * BLESSING Here it is said: "The birth of Gautama Buddha is steeped in both history and legends. The Buddha was born in the royal clan of an Aryan tribe, Sakyas, in East India in the 6th Century B.C. His father King Shuddhodana was the chief of the clan and ruled the principality of Kapilavastu on the borders of present-day Nepal. The King was married to Mahamaya, the daughter of the Raja of the Kolyan clan."
 * Austerlitz -- 88.72.10.229 (talk) 10:43, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

In the article it is said: "her father was king of Devadaha." Is this contradictory information?
 * Austerlitz -- 88.72.10.229 (talk) 10:48, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

some information on the Kolyans .........................After the Buddha's death the Koliyans of Rāmagāma claimed and obtained one-eighth of the Buddha's relics, over which they erected a thūpa (D.ii.167; Mhv.xxi.18, 22ff). See also s.v. Suppavāsā." "
 * see: "4 Koḷiyā "Koḷiyā One of the republican clans in the time of the Buddha. ...........According to the Kunālā Jātaka (J.v.413), when the Sākyans wished to abuse the Koliyans, they said that the Koliyans had once "lived like animals in a Kola-tree," as their name signified. The territories of the Sākiyans and the Koliyans were adjacent, separated by the river Rohinī. The khattiyas of both tribes intermarried, and both claimed relationship with the Buddha. (It is said that once the Koliyan youths carried away many Sākiyan maidens while they were bathing, but the Sākiyans, regarding the Koliyans as relatives, took no action; DA.i.262). A quarrel once arose between the two tribes regarding the right to the waters of the Rohinī, which irrigated the land on both sides, and a bloody feud was averted only by the intervention of the Buddha. In gratitude, each tribe dedicated some of its young men to the membership of the Order, and during the Buddha's stay in the neighbourhood, he lived alternately in Kapilavatthu and in Koliyanagara. (For details of this quarrel and its consequences see J.v.412ff; DA.ii.672ff; DhA.iii.254ff).
 * Austerlitz -- 88.75.205.173 (talk) 18:24, 19 November 2008 (UTC)