A print from a disbound book published 1914, with an unrelated picture or text on the reverse side.
Suitable for framing, the page size including text and border is approx 10.5" x 8" or 27cm x 20cm.
Image size approx 8.75 inches x 6 inches
This
is an antique print not a modern copy and shows normal signs of age or
previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any
scans as they form part of the description.
The date given of 1914 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos
accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in
monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in
brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
MAYA'S DREAM OF THE BIRTH OF GAUTAMA SIDDHARTA, THE BUDDHA, B.C. 568,
One of the commonest scenes in ancient sculpture is that of the famous dream of Maya and her miraculous conception of her son, the Buddha. The legend relates that the celestial white elephant, known as the Chhadanta, appeared to her in a dream, carrying a lily in his trunk, and entered her right side to be born as the great reformer. She was no lowly woman, but one of the two sister wives of Suddhodana, chief of the Sakyas of Kapilavastu. a mighty Kshatriya clan, so that the Buddha was born as a wealthy prince,
One of the commonest scenes in ancient sculpture is that of the famous dream of Maya and her miraculous conception of her son, the Buddha. The legend relates that the celestial white elephant, known as the Chhadanta, appeared to her in a dream, carrying a lily in his trunk, and entered her right side to be born as the great reformer. She was no lowly woman, but one of the two sister wives of Suddhodana, chief of the Sakyas of Kapilavastu. a mighty Kshatriya clan, so that the Buddha was born as a wealthy prince,