RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Maya

600 BC - 600 BC

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Maya (; Devanagari: माया, IAST: māyā), also known as Mahāmāyā and Māyādevī, was Queen of Shakya and the mother of Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha. She was the wife of Śuddhodana, the king of the Shakya kingdom. She died days after giving birth and the Buddha was raised by her sister, Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, who became the first Buddhist nun ordained by the Buddha. In the Buddhist Commentaries, Maya was on a traditional journey to her familial home in Devadaha where she would give birth, but her labor started as they were in Lumbini. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maya is the 329th most popular religious figure (up from 472nd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Nepal (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Nepalese Religious Figure.

Maya is most famous for being the Hindu goddess of illusion.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Maya ranks 329 out of 3,187Before her are Michael I Cerularius, Pope Felix III, Pope Alexander IV, Pope Gregory IV, Saint Boniface, and Saint Pantaleon. After her are Ephrem the Syrian, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Pope Benedict III, John Harvard, Pope Nicholas III, and Hugues de Payens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Maya ranks 10Before her are Esther, Peisistratos, Lucretia, Servius Tullius, Ānanda, and Yaśodharā. After her are Belshazzar, Mardonius, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Cambyses I, Pheidippides, and Hippasus. Among people deceased in 600 BC, Maya ranks 4Before her are Laozi, Draco, and Tomyris. After her are Belshazzar, Habakkuk, Astyages, Theano, Epimenides, Anacharsis, Phalaris, and Alcetas I of Macedon.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Maya ranks 3 out of 59Before her are Gautama Buddha (-566), and Yaśodharā (-600). After her are Tenzing Norgay (1914), Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), KP Sharma Oli (1952), Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954), Rāhula (-534), Śuddhodana (-590), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), and Ram Chandra Poudel (1944).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Nepal

Among religious figures born in Nepal, Maya ranks 1After her are Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Rāhula (-534), Anuruddha (-450), and Janaka (null).