- Suddhodana was the king of the city
- He actually had many wives, but his favorite was Maya
- she was an amazing woman: virtuous, truthful, attentive, and beautiful
- Maya requested to retreat to the forest
- Maya became pregnant with "he who seeks supreme knowledge"
- she was chosen due to her noble character
- She gave birth to the Buddha
- okay at this point, I'm a little unsure of how this happened
- the text went like, "suddenly, she stood very still. she smiled, and the maidens who were near her received a lovely child into their arms."
- like what? did the baby just drop like a missile?
- I'm interested in writing a story where Siddhartha visits a parallel universe and finds how his life would have been if he were to have not witness all of the suffering of the world and left his home to find enlightenment
- I'm rather confused at the scene where they're talking about the sixty four varieties of script
- what realization did Visvamitra come upon to where he realized he couldn't teach Siddhartha?
- It seems I didn't understand in the beginning. It was not Vismvamitra who read out the names of the scripts, it was Siddhartha himself.
- In the end, he wins Gopa's hand in marriage through all of his mental and physical prowess
Maya dreams of the elephant.
Source: Alchetron.
Title: The Life of BuddhaAuthor: Andre Ferdinand Herold
Translator: Paul C. Blum
Year: 1922
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