Part 16: Sumatinātha’s birth

Then the embryo gradually increased, like the moon in the bright fortnight, producing no pain in the Queen as if it were decreasing. In nine months, seven and a half days, on the eighth day of the white half of Vaiśākha, the moon being in conjunction with Maghā, Lady Maṅgalā bore with ease a jewel of a son, gold color, marked with a curlew, like the east bearing the moon. For a moment there was light in the three worlds; and comfort for the hell-inhabitants for a moment; and the thrones of Śakra, etc., shook at that time.