Shuddhodana ［浄飯王］ (; Pali Suddhodana;  Jōbonnō): A king of Kapilavastu in northern India and the father of Shakyamuni. According to the Sutra of the Collected Stories of the Buddha’s Deeds in Past Lives, Shuddhodana was the eldest son of King Simhahanu. Shuddhodana’s wife, Māyā, died seven days after giving birth to Shakyamuni, after which he married Māyā’s younger sister, Mahāprajāpatī. With Mahāprajāpatī, he had another son, Nanda. Shuddhodana originally opposed his son Shakyamuni’s desire to renounce the secular world and lead a religious life, but when Shakyamuni returned to his home Kapilavastu as the Buddha after his awakening, Shuddhodana converted to the Buddha’s teachings. Five years after Shakyamuni’s enlightenment, Shuddhodana is said to have died of illness at age seventy-nine (ninety-seven according to another account). The name Shuddhodana is rendered in Chinese translations of sutras as “Pure Rice.”