Buddha’s marvellous birth story, retold by Sir Edwin Arnold, also shows traces of this.[[637]]
“Maya, the Queen ...
Dreamed a strange dream, dreamed that a star from heaven—
Splendid, six-rayed, in color rosy-pearl,
Whereof the token was an Elephant
Six-tusked and white as milk of Kamadhuk—
Shot through the void; and shining into her,
Entered her womb upon the right.”[[638]]
During Maya’s conception a wind blows over the land:
“A wind blew