HOW WAS BUDDHA BORN ? |
| GAUTAM BUDDHA |
1.Shuddhodana had a son named Siddhartha Gautam. This is the story of his birth.
2. The Shakya people used to observe a festival every year in the month of Ashadh. The festival was celebrated by all the Sakya people as well as the royal family.
3. The festival was a seven-day celebration.
4. Mahamaya once decided to celebrate this festival in grand style, using garlands and perfumes, but not alcohol and stimulants.
5. On the seventh day of the festival, she woke up early in the morning, bathed in fragrant water, gave four lakh pieces of charity as a gift, adorned herself with precious ornaments, consumed her favorite food and performed vratacharan.
She went to the artistically decorated bedroom for sleep
6. That night, Shuddhodan and Mahamaya became solitary and Mahamaya became pregnant. As she lay on the bed, she fell asleep. While she was asleep, she had a dream.
7. In the dream, she saw Chaturdikpala lift her up with the stage in her sleep and take her to the top of the Himalayas under a huge shawl tree. They are standing side by side.
8. Then the women of Chaturdikpala came to her and told her Manas
Led to the lake.
9. They bathed her there and dressed her. They adorned her with incense and flowers, so that she would welcome a divine power.
Felt ready.
10. Just then a Bodhisattva named Sumedha appeared before her and said to her, "I have decided to take my last birth on earth. Will you agree to be my mother? "She replied," With great joy. "At that moment Mahamaya woke up.
11. The next morning, Mahamaya told his dream to Shuddhodana. Famous people who are well versed in dream science due to lack of meaning of dreams Called eight Brahmins.
12. Their names are Ram, Dhan, Lakhan, Manti, Yanna, Suyam, Bhog and Sudatta Agi.
Happens. Shuddhodana made proper preparations for his reception.
13. He placed flower garlands on the ground from the servants and raised them for the Brahmins Mandali.
14. He filled the leaves of the Brahmins with gold and silver and satisfied them by giving them a sugras meal of milk and rice mixed with ghee and sugar. Besides them new clothes, cows Etc. donated.
15. When the Brahmin was satisfied, Shuddhodana told Mahamaya about the dream and he said, "Tell me the meaning of this dream! 1 16." King, don't worry. "The Brahmin said, Will but apostasyIf he becomes a hermit, then he is the one who destroys the ignorance of the universe LordBuddha will be!
17. Like the oil in the pots, Mahamaya carried the Bodhisattva in her womb for ten months. As her delivery approached, she expressed her desire to go to her mistress for delivery. She said to her husband, "My father's I want to go to Devdah. "
18. "It will be as you wish." And the king answered and said, I am not Sitting down, Shuddhodana sent her to her father's house with a large entourage.
19. On the way to Devadaha, on the way, we had to go to Mahamaya in the fragrant forest of flowers and flowerless trees. That is Lumbini Forest.
20. As the palanquin was being carried through the Lumbini forest, it looked like a heavenly forest or a tent decorated to welcome a majestic king.
21. From the trunk to the top of the branches, the trees were covered with flowers.
Bumblebees of various colors were humming in it and various kinds of birds were singing in a melodious tone.
22. Seeing the beautiful scenery, Mahamaya wanted to stay there and play sports for some time. So she told the servants carrying the palanquin to take her palanquin down to the juniper tree and stand there.
23. Mahamaya got down from the palanquin and walked along the trunk of a beautiful willow tree. Seeing the branches of the willow tree swaying in the breeze, Mahamaya felt the need to hold one of them.
24. Luckily a twig. She came down as easily as she could hold. At that moment, she stood on the edge of her feet and held the branch in her hand. Mahamaya was lifted up with a jerk as he went up the branch; And as she moved, she began to have labor pains. A willow branch in hand She gave birth to a child while standing.
25. The boy was born in the year 563 BC
The genealogy took place on the full moon.
26. Shuddhodan and Mahamaya had been married for many years. But they had no children. And so when the recovery took place, the celebration of the birth of a son was celebrated with great joy by Shuddhodana and his family and all the Sakyas Celebrated
27. At this time of son's birth, it is the turn of Shuddhodana to assume the throne of Kapilvastu Was. Of course, that led to the boy being called Yuvraj.
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