Now before we get into his life, let's think about the context in which he was born. So we see from this timeline, most accounts place his birth at around 563 BCE, although there are some historians who think that he might have been born about 100, 150 years later than that. But either way, that would have been near the end of the Vedic period. And the Vedic period is named after the Vedas, these Hindu scriptures written by those Indo-Aryans who came into India, most historians believe, around 1500 BCE, or maybe before that. Now by the time of Siddhartha's birth, Hinduism was really starting to take shape. Many of the things that we would now recognize as modern-day Hindu practice already existed. And he was born into that world.