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  • Burmese Manuscript 22, Volume 1
  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • (Left side) The Bodhisatta goes to the Nanda Park in th
  • (Left) Prince Siddhattha (Bodhisatta) asks his father
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating u
  • 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.
  • (Left) The King and the court watch the spectacle
  • (Right) The devas ask the Bodhisatta
  • 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
  • (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
  • (Left) The Bodhisatta takes seven steps and
  • Life of Buddha Burmese Manuscript 22, Volume 1
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating
  • Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his was Prince Siddhattha sees the three signs, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, that lead to his renunciation of secular life.
  • The procession to the ploughing ceremony
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces that Prince Siddhattha will prove he is proficientt in the art of shooting arrows, archery to the people
  • Burmese-Pali manuscript.
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces
  • Burmese-Pali Manuscript.
  • Burmese-Pali Manuscript.
  • Burmese-Pali Manuscript.