About
ten months after the dream, the Queen was expecting her child and so she went
to the king and said ‘My dear, I have to go back to my parents. My baby is
about due now.’ Since it was the custom in India, for a wife to have her baby
in her father’s house, the king agreed, saying ‘Very well, I will make the
necessary arrangements for you to go.’
The king
sent soldiers ahead to clear the road and some were retained to guard the Queen
as she was carried in a decorated palanquin. The Queen left Kapilavatthu in a
long procession of soldiers and retainers, for the capital of her father’s
kingdom.,
On the
way to the Koliya country they passed a garden called Lumbini Park. The garden
was near the Kingdom called Nepal, at the foot of the Himalayan mountains. At
that time, the park was full of sweet scented flowers growing on the Sal trees
and thousand of birds, bees and other insects had flocked to the trees.
The
beautiful park with its trees and scented flowers and busy birds and bees
attracted the Queen. Since the park was a good resting place, the Queen ordered
the bearers to stop there for a while. However, as she rested underneath one of
the sal trees, the baby was born. It was an auspicious day. The birth took
place on a VESAK full moon day, in the year 623 B.C.
According
to the legends of this birth, he baby began to walk seven steps forward and at each step, a lotus
flower appeared on the ground where his foot should have been.
Another legend tells us that the baby said :
Aggohamasmi Lokassa “I am the chief
in the world,
Jettho Lamasmi Lokassa There is no equal to me,
Settho Hamasmi Lokassa I am supreme,
Aya mantima Jati This is my last birth,
Natthi Dani Punabhavo No rebirth for me.
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