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Once there was a queen who wished to bare a child. She tried for many moons until she prayed to Visnu for a child. That night as she slept a baby elephant came and blessed her with his trunk. She woke from her bed and left her king to dance with the elephant in the courtyard. They danced till there bodies where hot and sticky with sweat and incense. They made love under the cresant moon. In the mourning it was as if only a dream had passed yet the queen knew she was with child. For 9 moons she caried the child and travled the span of her country so that she could return home and give bitrh in the place of her birth. Until a day on her travel was filled with a radient sunlight and she, to take refuge from the heat, walked into a nearby forest for shade. As she walked she came across a dieing catapiller that looked at her and smiled. From the catapillers corpes sprang a butterfly that lit up the sky for an instant and vanished into the air. At that moment she began to give birth to he child. As she cried out, a nearby tree offerd its branch to give her support. The baby was born with almost no pain. And the baby walked as if it was seconed nature. From each of his steps sprung lotus blossoms. It walked to his mother and said " I have come to free all living beings from suffering."