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RISHI KAUNDINYA
The historical Kaundinya was a precocious youth who was acclaimed for his early scholastic accomplishments in his study of the Vedas. He was appointed a royal court scholar during the reign of the Sakya King Suddhodana in Kapilavastu, which was probably in Nepal.
Kaundinya gained further distinction when he was the only one of the court scholars to accurately predict that Prince Siddhartha would become an enlightened Buddha. Kaundinya became one of the five of Siddhartha's original disciples and spent his life traveling around India to spread his master's teachings.
