A Wikipedia article on Maya, mother of the Buddha, recording that she gave birth standing at Lumbini while holding a sal tree branch, with Prince Siddhartha said to have emerged from her right side. The article discusses Gandharan relief sculpture at length as a major surviving visual record of this birth scene and of the earlier white-elephant conception dream, both dated by scholars to the 2nd or 3rd century CE. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the birth narrative and Gandharan relief sculpture as its standard artistic record, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and describing an actual relief of that composition. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(mother_of_the_Buddha)
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Lumbini directly: "that she gave birth standing at Lumbini while holding a sal tree branch, with Prince Siddhartha said to have emerged from her right side."
Source Maya, Mother of the Buddha (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)
This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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