Q. With reference to the Ancient India, Gautama Buddha was generally known by which of the following epithets?
1. Nayaputta
2. Shakyamuni
3. Tathagata
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Exp) Option b is the correct answer
Surviving early Jain and Buddhist literature uses several names (or epithets) for Mahavira and Gautama Buddha.
Option 1 is incorrect: Lord Mahaviira was born in a Kshatriya family of Nadars (Nata-putta) of Northern India, near Patna (Vaisali), in the Jnatrika or Lichchavi Gotra of Nyaya Clan of ancient Mahavamsam (of Nadars), in Kundagrama. He is also called ‘Nayaputta’
Option 2 is correct: Gautama Buddha is also known as Shakyamuni. “Shakyamuni” means “sage of the Shākyas,” Shākya being the name of the tribe or clan to which his family belonged.
Option 3 is correct: After his enlightenment, the Buddha used the term Tathāgata to refer to himself. Tathāgata (nyorai) means “one who has come from the world of truth”; the Worshipful and “one who deserves offerings in the human and the celestial worlds”
Source: https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/jeff110.pdf
https://www.500yojanas.org/the-ten-epithets-of-the-buddha/
