Sage Asita’s visit to Śuddhodana (father of Gautam Buddha). Satvahana, 1st-2nd century AD, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh. National Museum, New Delhi. [3213 x 5712]

Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic, a sage and seer, depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India.
He was a teacher and advisor of Śuddhodana (शुद्धोदन), the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader;

Siddhartha was later known as Gautama Buddha.