Having found out what his son had in mind, King Suddhodana tried many ways to detain him, especially by surrounding him with worldly pleasures. When Siddhattha was only 16 years old, King Suddhodana arranged for him to marry Princess Yasodharā from a neighboring state. Yasodharā bore him a son named Rāhula. But all this was in vain. He finally slipped out of the capital city in the still of a night. He entered a forest, took off his princely clothes and, having shaven his head and beard, became a wandering mendicant. Regarding his age at the time of renunciation, there are two different accounts—one says nineteen, and the other twenty-nine.
凈飯王發(fā)覺了他兒子的心思后,曾經(jīng)想過各種辦法防止他,特別是企圖從生活的享受上羈縻他。悉達多王子十六歲時,凈飯王便為他娶了鄰國的王女耶輸陀羅(Yasodharā)為妃,生了一個兒子叫羅怙羅(Rāhula)。但是這一切都沒有能夠阻止他,終于在一天夜深人靜的時候,他偷偷地出了國城,進入一個森林中,換去王子的衣服,剃去須發(fā),成為一個修道者。關(guān)于他出家時的年齡,有兩種不同記載,一說是十九歲,一說是二十九歲。