The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating

Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his was Prince Siddhattha sees the three signs, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, that lead to his renunciation of secular life.

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