At once the Brahmans requested an audience with King Ankana and Queen Sunantha.  They graciously gave their consent to the marriage. The Brahmans were sent home with many presents.

Soon a magnificent column of elephants brought the royal guests, escorted by ten thousand knights on the finest of horses.  The prince and princess were bathed for four days and perfumed with sixty different scents. Prince Suddhodana received from his father the insignia of royalty: the white parasol, the royal sword, the great fan, the gold-embroidered royal slippers, and the makuta (the golden crown).

On the morning of the wedding, King Ankana took his seat in a golden carriage with his daughter Maha Maya beside him.  They were driven to the temple, escorted by ten thousand knights on noble horses. The god Indra himself descended from his heaven to escort them, as did the god of the trees (Yaksa) and the flowers (Pushpa).  Meanwhile, King Sihatanu accompanied his son to the temple, likewise escorted by ten thousand mounted knights.

As soon as both parties had arrived in the temple, the Brahman Sudasa conducted the prince and the princess to their golden thrones and ceremonially tied them together with seven cotton threads around their wrists.  The priest Sotavas blessed them and the priest Sahampati poured perfumed oil over them to anoint them as king and queen.  The gods were so overjoyed that they scattered flowers from paradise in the path of the royal couple.  Indra blew his conch so that the entire universe heard of this auspicious wedding, which would result in the speedy conception of the lord of the two worlds, Gautama, the future Buddha.

King Sihatanu, his queen, his son, and new daughter-in-law said good-bye to King Ankana and Queen Sunantha, parents of Maha Maya. They mounted their elephants and returned to their kingdom, Kapila the Radiant.

The gods were aware that the Bodhisattva would soon become incarnate and be born as a prince.  The question was, where?  Already there was a little less than a year left before the great event was due to take place, according to the signs of the universe.  In which continent would be appear? Which people would be prepared to receive his birth among them?

Meanwhile, Maha Maya had become pregnant.  Her condition was to last for ten months.