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| father = [[Añjana]]<br />
| mother = Yasodhara<br />
| spouse = [[Amita]]<br />
| issue = [[Yasodhara]](daughter) <br />
[[Devadatta]](son)<br />
| cor-type = Siblings<br />
| coronation = [[Maya (mother of Buddha)|Maya]]<br/>[[Mahapajapati Gotami]]<br />
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'''Suprabuddha''' (Sanskrit), or '''Suppabuddha''' (Pali) was the maternal uncle and father-in-law of the [[Buddha]] according to the [[Mahavamsa]] genealogy and the [[Theravada]] commentarial tradition.<ref name=dpn>[http://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/s/suppabuddha.htm Dictionary of Pali Proper Names]</ref> He was also known as Mahāsuppabuddha.<br />
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Suppabuddha is also the name of several other individuals mentioned briefly in the Theravada tradition.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
According to the Mahavamsa, he was the son of king [[Añjana]] and his wife Yasodharā.<ref name=dpn/> He was the father of both Bhaddakaccānā ([[Gautama Buddha|Siddhartha]]'s wife [[Yasodhara|Yasodharā]]) and [[Devadatta]], the Buddha's rival, from his wife Amitā. He had two sisters, [[Maya (mother of Buddha)|Māyā]] and [[Mahapajapati Gotami|Pajāpatī]] and a brother, [[Dandapāni]]. As the mother of Buddha was Maya, that made him the uncle of the Buddha, and as his daughter was the wife of the Buddha, he became also the father-in-law to the Buddha.<ref name=dpn/><br />
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Western scholars note that the pattern of cross-cousin marriage described in the Mahavamsa genealogy is typical of historical marriage practices in Dravidian societies in Southern India, but not typically associated with Northeast India and the Ganges Basin of the historical Buddha.<ref name="Kemper">{{cite book<br />
| last = Kemper<br />
| first = Steven<br />
| author-link = Steven Kemper<br />
| title = The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life<br />
| publisher = Cornell University Press<br />
| edition = 1st<br />
| date = 1992<br />
| location = Ithaca, NY<br />
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/presenceofpastch00kemp/page/48 48–9]<br />
| language = English<br />
| isbn = 0801423953<br />
| url-access = registration<br />
| url = https://archive.org/details/presenceofpastch00kemp/page/48<br />
}}</ref> Thus, the genealogy ascribed to the Buddha by the Mahavamsa may reflect elaboration and interpretation that reflects local traditions rather than historical fact.<ref name=Kemper/><br />
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According to the [[Mahāyāna]] ''[[Abhiniṣkramaṇa Sūtra]]'' (佛本行集經), Suprabuddha was a wealthy [[Shakya|Shākyan]] who lived in Devadaha. He had eight daughters, the eldest of whom was [[Maya (mother of Buddha)|Māyā]] and the youngest, [[Mahapajapati Gotami|Mahāpajāpatī]]. Both of them married King [[Shuddhodana]]. The other six daughters married his three brothers, two sisters to each.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}<br />
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==Life==<br />
According to the Theravada commentaries, the king was very offended because Prince Siddhartha had left his daughter Yasodhara to renounce the world and because his son Devadatta had come to regard him as his arch enemy.<ref name=dpn/> One day, knowing that the Buddha would be coming for almsfood, he got himself drunk and blocked the way. When the Buddha and the bhikkhus came, Suppabuddha refused to make way. Finding the road blocked, the Buddha and the bhikkhus turned back, and the Buddha remarked to [[Ananda]] that the king would be swallowed by the earth for being disrespectful towards a Buddha.<ref name=dpn/><br />
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Informed of this prediction, the king sealed himself up on a high floor of his palace as a precaution. However, on the seventh day predicted by the Buddha, a horse belonging to the king broke loose and the king went to attempt to calm it. He fell down the stairs and was swallowed by the earth, sharing the same eventual fate as his son, [[Devadatta]].<ref name=dpn/><br />
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==Others Named Suppabuddha==<br />
Suppabuddha the koliyan is one of several individuals by that given name identified in [[Pali literature]]. Others include:<br />
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* Suppabuddha the Leper, a man born as a leper as punishment for having disparaged a [[Pratyekabuddha]], who became a [[sotāpanna]] after hearing Shakyamuni Buddha preach in [[Rājagaha]]. He appears in the [[Udana]] and his story appears in two different variations, one including the intervention of the god [[Śakra (Buddhism)|Sakka]], in the Udana and [[Dhammapada]] commentaries.<ref name=dpn/><br />
* Suppabuddha, son of [[Vessabhū Buddha]] in his last lay life.<ref name=dpn/><br />
* An ancient king called Suppabuddha was a former birth of Eraka Thera, a monk mentioned in the [[Theragatha]].<ref name=dpn/><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/dhp/verseload.php?verse=128 Story of King Suppabuddha]<br />
* [http://www.chibs.edu.tw/ch_html/chbj/17/chbj1709.htm In-laws of the Buddha as Depicted in Pali Sources]<br />
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