Gautama on the full of which is the fourth month of the Indian calendar An early text record a prophecy named at the time of Gautama's birth
Later biographies relate the tragic story that seven days after giving birth to
Gautama, Maya died. In this account, Suddhodana later married Maya younger sister, whose name was said to be Mahaprajapati. Mahaprajapati is also said in this story to have raised Gautama along with his half-brother Nanda