Long ago, there was a king called Suddhodana. He married a
beautiful Koliyan princess named Maha Maya. The couple ruled over the Sakyas, a
warrior tribe living next to the Koliya tribe, in the north of India. The capital
of the Sakya Kapilavatthu.
Since
King Suddhodana was a very good king and Queen Maha Maya was equally good,
everyone in the kingdom loved them. But they did not have children and they
were longing for a son for a long time.
One full
moon night, in the palace, the Queen had a dream. She felt herself being
carried away by four DEVAS (angels) to Lake Anotatta in the Himalayas. After bathing
her in the Lake, the DEVAS clothed her in heavenly clothes. Soon after a while
a white elephant holding a white lotus flower in its trunk, appeared and went
round her three times. Finally the elephant disappeared. She woke up. She found
it was all a dream.
The next
day early in the morning the Queen told the King about the dream the King was
puzzled and so he sent for some wise men and asked them the meaning of the
dream.
The wise
men said ‘Your Majesty, you are very lucky, the DEVAS have chosen our Queen as
the mother of the Purest-One and the child will become a very great being’. The
King and Queen were very happy when they heard this.
They were
so pleased that they invited many of the noblemen in the country to the palace
to a feast and to tell them the good news.
Even
the needy were not forgotten. Food and clothes were given to the poor people.Here you can see the video for this post:
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