The Myth of Sitharta

The story goes that when sitharta was born, his father had all of the sages and wise men come to his birth. And it was prophesied, foretold, in of an oracle fashion, that the boy had one of two possible futures. One is he would be a great king, or the other was he would enter religious life,. The king, being what all kings are, chose the former. So i cannot, and i don't think anybody can, say with certainty, this is what the historical sidharto was doing.