Maya's conception dream

Maya's Conception dream

• Carried away by four devas (spirits) to Lake Anotatta in the Himalayas
• After bathing her in the lake, the devas clothed her in heavenly cloths, anointed her with perfumes, and bedecked her with divine flowers.
• Soon after a white elephant, holding a white lotus flower in its trunk, appeared and went round her three times, entering her womb through her right side.
  

Symbolisation

Elephant

• symbol of greatness in Nepal (White elephants are auspicious (lucky,…