Butta est prima in Buddhismo persona, et fabulae de eius vita, acroasibus, regulisque monasticis a Buddhistis creduntur congestas fuisse et a sectatoribus memoria custoditas. Variae doctrinarum congeries ei tributae, traditione orali transmissae, primum, circa quadringentos annos post, litteris mandatae sunt.
↑Antiquissima eius mentio litteris Graecis inventa est in Clementis AlexandriniMiscellaneis 1.15.71.6, ubi legitur: εἰσὶ δὲ τῶν Ἰνδῶν οἱ τοῖς Βούττα πειθόμενοι παραγγέλμασιν. ('sunt apud Indos qui Buttae praecepta sequuntur'). De qua re vide Georgios T. Halkias, "When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers of Knowledge in Indo-Greek Cultures," in Religions and Trade: Religious Formation, Transformation and Cross-Cultural Exchange between East and West, ed. Peter Wick et Volker Rabens (2014), pp.65-116: p. 93, n. 83.
↑In litteris Devanagari hodiernis: सिद्धार्थ गौतम गौतम.
↑Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley (1962–1985). "buddha 9276". A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. Londinii: Oxford University Press. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. p. 525
↑Stephen Laumakis, An Introduction to Buddhist philosophy (2008), p. 4.
↑Vide consensum in commentationibus a maioribus eruditis scriptis in The Date of the Historical Śākyamuni Buddha, ed. A. K. Narain (Novi Dellii: B. R. Publishing Corporation, 2003), ISBN 81-7646-353-1.
↑"As is now almost universally accepted by informed Indological scholarship, a re-examination of early Buddhist historical material . . . necessitates a redating of the Buddha's death to between 411 and 400 BCE" —Paul Dundas, The Jains, ed. 2a., (Routledge, 2001), p. 24.