A statue of Prince
Siddhartha,
i.e. the
Buddha-to-be,
at
Wat Phra Kaew Don Tao
(fig.)
in
Lampang, representing
the scene
immediately after his
Phrasoot (fig.)
or
royal birth (fig.), which is in Buddhist
iconography
depicted as a boy standing
upright and holding his right arm and index finger in the air, and at which
time the newborn is
said to have taken seven steps and that
at each step where he touched the ground a
lotus
blossomed (fig.).
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