Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t5.7
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t5.7
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3. Interpretation of Dream (svapna kathana). King Śuddhodana hearing the dream of Māyā Devī summoned an astrologer to interpret the dream, who declared that the queen would give birth to a son who would either be an universal monarch (a Chakravartī) or a Yogī Buddha. On the left are shown King Śuddhodana and queen Māyā seated on their respective thrones with female attendants. On the right are four seated figures, apparently four Devas to protect Māyā in her pregnancy. Below is the soothsayer in the form of an old Brāhmanical Ṛishi. The central figure holding a spouted waterpot is Indra.