Page 4 - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha Teacher of Gods & Men

梦⻅⽩象 Dreamt of a White Elephant King Suddhodana,

(斯⾥兰卡 Sri Lanka: 1983)
who ruled over the Sakyans in

Kapilavatthu [Northern India

today] was eager to have an heir

to his throne. He wished his

Queen Maha Maya would bear

him a son.

THE right side of her womb. The next
THE

One night while taking a rest,

Queen Maha Maya dreamt of a

white elephant entering her

morning, the Queen found

DREAM herself to be pregnant with a
DREAM

child. Nine months later, she

wished to return to her

hometown in Kosala to give

birth, a tradition during that

time for the Queen to go back to

DREAMT OF A WHITE ELEPHANT her parents.