alleryThe Buddha was born into which tribe of rice-farmers?
ALicchavi
BMalla
CKoliya
DShakya
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Shakya
1. The earliest Buddhist sources say he was born to a Kshatriya family called Gautama.
2. This family belonged to the Shakyas, a tribe of rice-farmers near the India-Nepal border.
3. The Koliya kingdom was his mother's homeland, not his own clan.
_Source: Wikipedia, Gautama Buddha, Birth and early life_
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