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| This statue depicts Maya miraculously giving birth to Siddhartha Gautama, who would become Buddha, the “Enlightened One.” She is holding a branch of the sacred sal tree, in the manner of an Indian fertility goddess, before Buddha is born from her right side. | ||||||
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| Archivo Iconografico, S.A/Corbis | ||||||
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