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Chapter 4The Prince Who Renounced
The Birth of Vardhamana
वर्धमान
The child was born at Kundagrama to King Siddhartha and Queen Trishala of the Jnatrika clan, and because the kingdom's prosperity is said to have grown from the time of his conception, he was named Vardhamana, meaning 'the one who increases.'