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	Life of the Buddha - ReligionFacts
		The choice of an elephant as a symbol of her impregnation is a well-thought out metaphor because elephants are known for their strength and intelligence, and also associated with gray-rain clouds and thus with fertility, since rainwater means that seeds will germinate and vegetables will be able to grow.
		In visual depictions, Mayadevi's unique posture has given rise to an entire genre of feminine imagery, where amply endowed female forms stand sinuously in dance postures with the left leg crossed in front of the right.
		Here, not only does Mayadevi's posture provide a powerful statement presenting her as fertility incarnate, but as the mother of the Buddha-to-Be, she is also the generative source of the enlightenment process.
	www.religionfacts.com /buddhism/history/buddha.htm (3700 words)

	THE EIGHT PLACES
		During the night of his conception, Queen Mayadevi, who is to be the mother of all the thousand buddhas of this aeon, dreamt of a great white elephant entering her womb.
		It is said that in the manner of all bodhisattvas in their final birth, he remained sitting cross-legged for the whole time within the womb.
		At the appointed time Queen Mayadevi was visiting the Lumbini Garden some ten miles from the Shakya city of Kapilavastu.
	members.porchlight.ca /blackdog/places.htm (11319 words)

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