# Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author

Date: 455

## The fact

Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the [Buddha](/people/gautama-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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Ajatashatru at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Britannica — Buddha at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Britannica — Ajatashatru (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Buddha (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Ajatashatru (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

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. Do not assign the killing to the Buddha. Mixed effects of Ajatasattu is a received Magadhan king in late-life narratives, including parricide weather the Buddha did not author are separate paths.

## People

- Gautama Buddha: https://factrail.ai/people/gautama-buddha

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-kings-ajatasattu