Buddha was an Achaemenid false king!
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Topic: Buddha was an Achaemenid false king!
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Subject: Buddha was an Achaemenid false king!
Date Posted: 06-May-2015 at 14:12
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http://www.irna.ir/en/News/81595858/ - http://www.irna.ir/en/News/81595858/ Names of Gaumata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumata - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumata and Gautama (Buddha): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha are really similar and they lived almost at the same time! ------------- 
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Posted By: amature historian
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2017 at 17:24
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Interesting idea, but unlikely. More likely that Gautama was a family name, and that after Darius seized power the family left, perhaps going to India. Names tend to passed down in families. I supposed the King Gautama could have decided to become a religious acetic after losing power, but that doesn't match our biographies of Buddha. I could see a prince, a descendant of the deposed king having the same name, having a different slant on the Indian religions of the time due to his different historical background. So while I doubt that they are the same person, they could be related. Wouldn't be the first time a king who lost power when to a different land - some of the Persia princes went to China after the Muslim conquest. |