Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author
Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author Do not assign the killing to the Buddha. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Received court stories. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.
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Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author Do not assign the killing to the Buddha. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Received court stories. He did not hold the knife. Stored as violent royal weather of the late sangha.
Context
Magadha succession. Sharing unnamed courtiers is required. The setting of Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author is the public file around -0455-01-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author on -0455-01-01. Parricide-court weather is a humanitarian path of low personal coefficient. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Shared responsibility is part of Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author. Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0455-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Gautama Buddha
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
Received court stories. He did not hold the knife. Stored as violent royal weather of the late sangha.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactAjatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author
- weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 1 January 455 · verified
Parricide-court weather is a humanitarian path of low personal coefficient.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.5)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Buddha, early life neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Ajatashatru at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Britannica — Buddha at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Britannica — Ajatashatru (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Buddha (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author under -0455-01-01 for Gautama Buddha. Established: a sourced public record of Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author under -0455-01-01.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorGautama Buddha
- contributed toFactAjatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author
- weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
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Factrail. (2026). Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-kings-ajatasattu
https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-kings-ajatasattu
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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