(Left) King Suddhodana asks brahmins to intertret the Queen's

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(Left) King Suddhodana, with Queen Maha-Maya on his left, asks brahmins to interpret the Queen's dream. They predict that the child conceived will become either a Univbersal Monarch or a Buddha. (Right) Ten lunar months after conception Queen Maha-Maya, escorted by noblemen and woman sets out on the road to her home, Devadaha, to have the child

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