Buddha's
birth -A story for kids
Queen
Maya, wife of King Suddhodana of Kapilavastu, was engaged in worship on the
full moon day of July. That night, the queen, who was expecting a child, dreamt
that she was seated under the Sal tree on the Himalayan peaks. Divine deities
came there and offered their respects to her. Then she slept with her head to
the east. At that time a white elephant descended from a golden mountain,
presented her a lotus and after reverentially circling her three times, entered
her womb from the right. This was a sign that a great person would take birth.
This divine dream was a symbolic prelude to Buddha's
birth.
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