Story Lab: Story Revision

Legend has it that an deity must underwent forty-nine incarnation to become god. This is his last life. He had passed forty-eight eternal cycle of birth, suffering, death and rebirth. This time, he became an ordinary person to experience and to understand all of the sufferings and hardships of an ordinary person. He would be able to enlighten the supreme power whenever he thoroughly understood the rule of "birth, old, illness and death", and the law of "causes and effects." However, success or failure depended on whether or not he could overcome the temptation of seven human feelings (joy, anger, love, hate, sorrow, passion, and love) and the six root afflictions (application of thought, examining, decision, energy, rapture, desire).

The Supreme and Eternal one and the Creator tested him by let him reborn in a poor family of Kapilavastu kingdom, which was ruled under the King Suddhodana. In a day of his reincarnation, the hermit Asita received a good omen by observation the special phenomenon of the stars. He immediately came to the king and reported that the sky appeared a new star, which was super shine and big and surrounding that big star was many little stars. Asita predicted that there would be a supreme lord whose his reborn would soon make this country better.

The King ordered his guards to find the newborn. What a strange coincidence that a whole kingdom  appeared only one pregnant woman and no newborn was reported around this time.

Buddha walked on a lotus. Picture from Wiki

A month had passed, the pregnant women gave birth to a boy, but unluckily, she died after that. The King soon adopted him and officially named him Prince Siddhartha. Prince Siddhartha was being nurture by the Queen. Astonishingly enough, all lotus flowers in the kingdom were flourishing, spreaded a soft aroma when Siddhartha was brought into the world. Prince Siddhartha appeared healthy, and pretty much handsome little boy and surrounding his head was a light pale pink nimbus, exactly like the color of the lotus. Anywhere he came, lotus was born, people was happy. The whole kingdom felt highly enthusiastic. The king decided to open a three-day party to celebrate his newborn. The King also brought the nature mother of Prince to the national Buddhist temple to worship.

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Author's Note: In this story lab, I just revised the grammar for this story, and no specific change of the content.

Based on the Life of Buddha: The Birth of Siddhartha by Andre Ferdinand Herold, I changed the context a bit. The original version didn't mention about the seven feelings and six root afflictions. I personally believed that a Buddha should be born in a normal way to understand a normal life.

 Andre Ferdinand Herold told that Maya, a Queen, dreamed about the elephant that entered to her womb. She became pregnant and later born to Prince Siddhartha under the precious tree. She died about seven days later.I added the lotus because most of the Buddha i know (via pictures and movies), used to sit and meditate in Buddha's throne made from lotus. 

Also, in the original story, the hermit Asita came to the king to see the Prince because he heard about the birth of Siddhartha. Then he told that the Prince soon became a supreme Lord Buddha.