YasodharÄ
Princess Yasodhara is known as the wife of Prince Siddhartha, who was later than the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism essentially known.
Life
Yasodhara was the daughter of the prince and his wife Suppabuddha Pamita, of the tribe of the Shakya. At the age of 16 she was married to her cousin, the same age Shakya prince Siddhartha. At the age of 29 she gave birth to their son Rahula, whom she reared in the palace of Prince Suddhodana as the new heir to the throne after Siddhartha left his wife and his father's palace to live as a wandering ascetic.
Many years later, when Siddhartha became the Buddha, she joined forces with her mother Pajapati, the foster mother of Siddhartha, as a nun in the Order of the Buddha, and finally became the Arhat.
Legends
Many legends have grown around the figure Yasodharas. One is an encounter in a previous life in the age of Buddha Dipankara when she was a noble woman named Sumitra and when she met the ascetic Sumedha, spontaneously vowed to be him in all future rebirths a supportive wife until he Buddhahood the would obtain. Or in Candakinnara Jataka she began with her body from an arrow, which threatened to take the bodhisattva who was to become the Buddha Shakyamuni once.