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  • Illustrated Sinhalese covers (inside) showing the events between the Bodhisatta's renunciation and the request by Brahna Sahampati that he teach the Docrine after he becomes a Buddha.
  • The queen stops on the way to Devadaha, in Lumbinin Park to admire sal trees, and gives birth to Prince Siddhattha
  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • (Left side) The Bodhisatta goes to the Nanda Park in th
  • Attributes of dPal-ldan Lha-mo in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • (Left) Prince Siddhattha (Bodhisatta) asks his father
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating u
  • MS Thai 3, detail from back cover
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (top right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (bottom)
  • The newly married couple, Princess Yasodhara and Bodhisatta
  • Cover for Volume 2 in red tooled leather with text in gold
  • (Left) The queen gives birth to the Bodhisatta.
  • Attributes of dPal-ldan Lha-mo in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • (Left) The King and the court watch the spectacle
  • MS Thai 3, two leaves
  • (Right) The devas ask the Bodhisatta
  • The monk Phra Malai (left) and a scene from hell (right)
  • Cover for Volume 3 in red tooled leather with text in gold
  • Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his way Prince Siddhattha, Bodhisatta, sees three signs of the four that would turn him into Buddha, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, and that lead to his renunciation of secular life.
  • Devas announce the coming of a Buddha.
  • (Left) King Suddhodana asks brahmins to intertret the Queen's
  • (Left) The predictions of the brahmins,
  • King Suddhodana, courtiers and other men pay their respects to Bodhisatta, siting on a swing in the lotus possition, a second time
  • The procession of Princes Yasodhara, seated in a palanquin and surrounded by soldiers and courtesans, arriving for her marriage to Prince Siddhattha, Bodhisatta. In the procession are minor officials, musician, soldiers, ministers and spectators
  • Thorn tree for punishment of adultry (top left) and ghouls in hell with Phra Malai above them (top right), the poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (bottom right) and presents them to Phra Malai (bottom left)
  • (Left) Princess Yasodhara points to Prince Siddhattha, Bodhisatta performing feats of archery. (Right) The demonstration of the archery skills of Prince Siddhattha, showing three, (top right) of the twelve feats as in the Sarabhanga Jataka, one of the stories of the former lives of Buddha.
  • The procession to the ploughing ceremony
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven next to Chulamani Pagoda (left) and a bodhisttva with attendants in heaven (right)
  • (Left) The Bodhisatta takes seven steps and
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with his attendants (left)