The
Illustrated Jataka : Other Stories of the Buddha by C.B. Varma
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073 - Maha Mayas Dream / महामाया का स्वप्न |
सिद्धार्थ गौतम की
माता महामाया और कपिलवस्तु के
राजा सुद्धोदन की धर्म-पत्नी शक्यवंसीय अंजन की पुत्री थी, जो देवदह के प्रमुख थे।
उनकी माता का नाम यशोधरा था। किन्तु थेरी गाथा
उच्कथा के अनुसार उनके पिता का नाम महासुप्पबुद्धा था और अवदान कथा के
अनुसार उनकी माता का नाम सुलक्खणा था। T he name of the mother
of Gotama was Maya, often called Mahamaya. She was the daughter of the
Sakyan Anjana of Devadaha and mother Yasodhara the daughter of
Jayasena. (However, according to the Therigatha
Atthakatha (141) her father was Mahasuppabuddha; and according to the Apadana
(ii.538) her mother was Sulakkhana). She had two brothers and one sister.
She and her sister Maha Pajapati were married to Suddhodana, who was the
king of Kapilavatthu. Mahamaya possessed
every virtue of being the mother of the Buddha. She never violated the
practice of panchasheela (five vows of righteous conduct, which means refraining
from killing; steeling; sensual pursuits, lies and intoxicants). Further,
according to the tradition she had practised parami for one thousand years; and was thus suitable to become the
mother of the Buddha. The day when the Buddha was to be conceived she kept fast; and at night she had a dream. In her dream she saw that the four devas, called the Chatumaharajas, took her to the Himava and placed her on a bed under a Sal tree. Then the wives of the devas came and bathed her in the Lake Anottata and dressed her in divine robes. They then took her to a golden palace and laid her in a magnificent couch, where the Bodhisatta in the form of a white elephant holding a white lotus in his resplendent trunk entered her womb through her right side. That was a full-moon day of Uttara Asalha to mark the beginning of a seven-day festival. She, too, had participated in the festival. Furthermore, on that day she did not sleep with her husband. Mahamaya musing at her dream Next day, she told the dream to the king, who in turn consulted the court astrologers, and from them heard the prophecy that the child would either be universal monarch or a Buddha. King Suddhodana and Mahamaya analysing the dream
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