When the queen had departed from the living, Pajāpatī took the
boy Siddhattha and reared him. And as the light of the moon
increases little by little, so the royal child grew from day to
day in mind and in body; and truthfulness and love resided in his
heart. 28
When a year had passed Suddhodana the king made Pajāpatī his
queen and there was never a better stepmother than she. 29