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Source: academia.edu: Elements of Newar Buddhist Art

The Supernatural Birth of the Buddha is described in the Nidanakatha.—Several Buddhist texts repeatedly describe that prince Siddhartha was born in the Lumbini grove from the side of the Queen mother Maya as she grasped a branch of a tree. According to the Nidanakatha soon after such supernatural birth the newborn baby received an atmospheric shower bath. Often a peculiar phrase is used to describe the event, “utum gahapesum”—“[the gods] caused [the baby] to receive the season”.  This phrase helps us to connect the concept of the nativity scene with pre-Buddhist belief associated with the birth of a cosmic child, and with a latent aspect of Newar Buddhist tradition, which celebrates the birthday of Bodhisattvas as the prelude of the rainy season during the bright half of the Jyestha month.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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