[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The History of Buddhist Thought](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933) › c19.14 # The History of Buddhist Thought c19.14 The History of Buddhist Thought c19.14 - **Language:** English ### [c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.14) The rest of this first period consists of his life in his three palaces, his marriage (at the age of sixteen), and his skill and achievements in the arts. The most interesting incident is that of the ploughing festival. While his father with a golden plough was performing the ceremony, the nurses placed him under a canopy beneath a rose-apple tree. They left him, and he immediately sat up cross-legged and attained the first trance. When the nurses returned they found that the shadows of the other trees had moved, but that of the rose-apple tree had stayed. This event is based on a phrase in the Canon (\*Majjh.\*, i, 246), but other accounts place it much later, and one of them puts it on the day before the great Renunciation. - [Previous: c19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.13) - [Next: c19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.15) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Majjhimanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.14) · Pramāṇa