(From the Tipitaka) Princess Yasodhara married the future Buddha (Bodhisatta), Gotama at the age of 16. On the day of the birth of their son Rahula the Bodhisatta renounced the world to find the path to enlightenment.
Princess Yashodhara and Rahula were eventually ordained into the Buddhist Order where they both developed insight and attained arahantship. In the Apadana the princess declares her attainment (translation not yet published). In the Psalms of the Brethren, Rahula 294-298, Rahula declares his attainment: (AW)
Reborn in this Buddha-age through our Bodhisat, as the son of Princess Yasodhara, he was reared with a great retinue of nobles. The circumstances of his entering the Order are recorded in the Khandhaka. And he, his knowledge ripened by gracious words in many Sutta passages, conjured up insight, and so won arahantship. Thereupon, reflecting on his victory, he confessed anna:
Twice blest of fortune am I whom my friends
Call 'Lucky Rahula.' for I am both
Child of the Buddha and a Seer of truths;
Yea, and intoxicants are purged from me;
Yea, and there's no more coming back to be.
Ar'hant am I, worthy of men's offerings;
'Thrice skilled' my ken is of ambrosial things.
Blinded are beings by their sense-desires,
Spread o'er them like a net; covered are they
By cloack of craving; by their heedless ways
Caught as a fish in mouth of funnel-net,
But I, that call of sense abandoning,
Have cut and snapt the bonds of devil's lure.
Craving with craving's root abolishing;
Cool am I now; extinct is fever's fire.
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