MAYA'S DREAM AND INTERPRETATION (PERIOD III)

On the left panel, Maya is shown reclining. Below the couch four women attendents are shown half asleep. Four turbaned men of rank stand as guards at the four corners of the couch. In the right panel Maya is seen seated on a small wicker seat in front of the King while a Brahmana is seated to the left of the king. The Brahmana holds up his two fingers suggesting two possibilities regarding the future of the child to be born. The two possibilities are that either he would be a monarch, if he adopted the life of a house-holder or he would become the Buddha, if he renounced the world.