Who was Siddhartha Gautama before he became the Buddha? A. a guru B. an ascetic C. a Brahmin D. a Hindu prince

Siddhartha Gautama was a Hindu prince before he became Buddha.

Hindu applies to any individual who witnesses themselves as influentially, ethnically, or religiously adhering to features of Hinduism religion. It holds historically remained accepted as a geological, social, and succeeding into a religious identifier for people native to the Indian subcontinent.