Yashodhara
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Yashodhara was the wife and cousin of Buddha. She bore a son named Rahula for Siddhārtha Gautama, who became the Buddha in approximately 534 BC. She later became an Arahant. She became a chief disciple in super-normal powers.
In many legends of the Buddha's life [1], Yashodhara meets Siddhārtha Gautama for the first time in a previous life, when as the young brahmin Sumedha he is formally identified as the future Buddha by the current Buddha Dipankara. Waiting in the city of Paduma for Dipankara, he tries to buy flowers as an offering to the Enlighted One, but soon learns that the king already bought all the flowers for his own offering. Yet, as Dipankara is approching, Sumedha spots a girl named Sumidha (or Bhadra) holding eight lotuses in her hands. He speaks to her with the intention of buying one of her flowers, but she recognises at once his potential and offers him five of the lotuses against the promise that they shall be husband and wife in all their next existences.
- ^ Fu-pen-hing-tsi-king Miscellaneous Notices respecting the Birth and History of Buddha translated by Djinakûta, native of Gandhâra in the time of the Sui dynasty (581-617 A.D.)
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