Share This Article Raja Suddhodana is best known as this: The first president of Pakistan Aide to Mahatma Gandhi Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi The father of Buddha An Indonesian dictator The father of Buddha. Raja Suddhodana, king of the Sakyas in the 6th century BC, is best known as the father of Buddha. The kingdom of the Sakyas was on what is now the border of Nepal and India. Buddha was born in about 563 BC.