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Question
Who was Gautam Buddha? Where was he born?
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Solution
Gautam Buddha was the founder of Buddhism. He belonged to the Kshatriya clan of Sakya. He was born in 563 BC at Lumbini near Kapilavastu, in Nepal.
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