Please answer the following question: Given the following passage  "According to this narrative, shortly after the birth of young prince Gautama, an astrologer named Asita visited the young prince's father, Suddhodana, and prophesied that Siddhartha would either become a great king or renounce the material world to become a holy man, depending on whether he saw what life was like outside the palace walls.",  answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.  Question: Who was Suddhodana to the prince?
A:
father