71. The Bodhisattva comes to Raivata or Arada Kalapa
After that he came to the hermitage of the brahmar$i Raivata, and he also gave the same invitation to the Bodhisattva.
Thus the Bodhisattva came gradually to the great kingdomVai~al~. Now at that time itrada Kalapa had fixed his dwellingin Vaic,ali and lived there with a great company of c,ravaka's, three hundred scholars. And he taught them a creed that enjoins poverty and the subjugation of the senses. When he saw the Bodhisattva from afar, full of wonder he said to his disciples: "Behold! see the noble appearance of that man"! And they said: "Truly we see it. It is very marvellous". Thereupon I went 1) to the place where Arada K§lipa was and spoke thus to him: "I seek to become a brahman-scholar of Arad. a Kalapa". He answered: "Do so, Gautama, according to that teaching of the law by which a devout son of good family may acquire the knowledge with little trouble". (238: 9, 14).
It is not possible to make out if this relief is the visit to Raivata or the arrival at Arada Kalapa's hermitage, it might do for either. In favor of the former, it may be said that in design this relief very much resembles the one preceding, described in the same manner in the text and besides that the scenery here differs from that in the following which we can certainly be sure takes place at Arada Kalapa's. In the second case we can plead that such variations of scenery are not at all uncommon with the Barabudur sculptors, who are careless about details, while on the contrary the arrival at Arada Kalapa's is treated with some importance in the text and its representation here seems more appropriate than the casually-mentioned visit to Raivata's establishment. A Gandhara-relief probably also depicts the arrival 2); the ascetic is sitting before his cell as the Bodhisattva advances with Vajrapar.~i. On Barabudur the Bodhisattva is coming from the right holding a tip of his garment in the left hand; as on the preceding relief he appears out of a rocl~y landscape with trees and a den with two wild animals, apparently apes. In front of him, with an incense-burner on the ground between them, stands the head of the hermitage, welcoming the visitor with a lotus in his left hand. Behind them under the trees are some scholars. The front one holds out a water jug towards the visitor; a second jug can be seen on the left on the rocks that are on the same side. The costume worn is the usual one; hair done up in plaits, necklace and loin-cloth. One of them has a rosary. while the god who is arranging the apparition, hovers above. Away to the right, the apparition itself is found. At Pagan each time nearly the whole relief is taken up by the Bodhisattva in his carriage, and the apparition is given in small size on the right!); at Tun-Huang the first three encounters are condensed into one scene, but the monk and the Bodhisattva himself are absent 2).