The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s2.89

v2.c16.s2.89

³⁸ "It was in the summer season, in the first month in the second demilunation, during the bright half of the moon of Chaitra, on the thirteenth day, after a gestation of nine months and seven and a half days, that the venerable ascetic Mahāvīra was born, a faultless child, when the planets were at their greatest elongation, and when they were in a fortunate conjunction with the moon, while all the regions were in a state of placidity, while there was no darkness, but all luminous, without any louring redness, and nightingales (syāmā : *Turdus macrouras*) singing songs of triumph, of the waxing and the purifying wind moving gently along, and circling the place where lay the Lord and his mother. The joyous multitude were engaged in celebrating the vernal festival, and even the earth seemed to share in the delight. It was at midnight under the constellation Uttara Phālguni, at a lucky conjunction of the moon and planets, that the event took place”. Stevenson’s *Kalpa Sūtra*, p. 74.