The Buddha and Devadatta were cross-cousins. Devadatta and Bhaddakaccānā/Bhaddakaccā were respectively the son and daughter of Sākyan Suppabuddha and Amitā. Amitā was the sister of the Buddha's father, Suddhodana. The Buddha's mother, Māyā/Mahāmāyā, and stepmother, Pajāpatī Gotamī, were Suppabuddha's sisters. According to the Pāli texts, Bhaddakaccānā was married to Prince Siddhattha, the would-be Buddha. Devadatta entered the Saṃgha when the Buddha visited Kapilavatthu shortly after Enlightenment. He appears to have begun his career quite impressively as a monk. During the very first Vassāvāsa that followed his entry into the Saṃgha, Devadatta acquired the power of iddhi, possible to those who are still of the world (puthujjanika-iddhi). According to the account, as a result of this achievement, the prestige of Devadatta grew tremendously and he came to acquire great respect within the Saṃgha. In fact, elsewhere in the Pāli Nikāyas, Devadatta is praised as a quintessential example of an ideal monk, who had the right views and preached the correct dhamma. Sāriputta lavished praises on him saying: ‘Godhīputta is of great psychic power, Godhīputta is of great splendour’. The Buddha also praised Devadatta and included him amongst those eleven Elders who were particularly praiseworthy. In fact, the Buddha went so far as to call Devadatta and the others as the ones who had ‘put away evil, who have destroyed the fetters, the wise ones’.