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UPSC 2024: With reference to 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:
(a)1 only
(b)2 and 3 only
(c)1, 2 and 3
(d)None of the above are epithets of Gautama Buddha
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Gautama Buddha is widely referred to as Shakyamuni (‘Sage of the Shakyas’) and frequently calls himself Tathagata (‘Thus-Come/Thus-Gone One’) in the Pali Canon. ‘Nayaputta’ (or Nigantha Nataputta) is an epithet of Mahavira, the 24th Jain Tirthankara, not of the Buddha. Hence only 2 and 3 are epithets of Gautama Buddha. ([asia.si.edu](https://asia.si.edu/glossary/shakyamuni/?utm_source=openai))
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