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(Left side) The Deva Setaketu (Bodhisatta) goes to the Nanda Park in the Tusita Deva heaven to be reborn and is shown seated within the Nanda Park. (Right side) Queen Maha-Maya dreams, at the time of conception, that her bed was taken by devas to the shores of Lake Anotatta in the Himalaya mountains and that the Deva Setaketu (Bodhisatta), in the form of a white elephant, appeared to enter her right side

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