27. Maya betakes herself to the Lumbini-park
"Let queen Maya alone be seated in the splendid carriage and no other man or woman ride in it. And let women in various garments draw that carriage."
Then did queen Maya pass, accompanied by 84,000 horsecarriages decorated with all sorts of ornaments and by 84.000 elephant carriages decorated with all kind of ornaments, escorted by 84,000 warriors, brave, warlike, well-favored, hansome, cladin mail and armour, followed by 60,000 Cakya-women, guarded by 40,000 Cakya's of the family of king Cuddhodana, old, young and middle-aged, accompanied by 60.000 persons of king Cuddhodana's private appartments, who made harmonious music consisting of singing and the sound of all sorts of instruments, surrounded by 84,000 gods daughters, 84,000 naga-daughters, 84,000 gandharvadaughters, 84,000 kinnara-daughters, and 84,000 asura-daughters, adorned with differently composed ornaments who sang all kinds of songs of praise." (80: 9; 81: 21).
Not much is seen on the relief of the enormous procession that escorted the queen to Lumbinl according to the text. She sits in a comfortable arm chair with cushions on a four-wheeled carriage, and she sits there quite alone.') This agrees with the text in the first words of the king quoted above; the rest of his orders was not carried out by the sculptor, for it is not women who draw the Carl iage but two horses hung with bells, upon one of whichis the charioteer. In front walks a troop of partially-armed men who to judge by the fine clothes, will be gakya's; behind and next to the carriage are servants with umbrellas and leaf-fan and these too are armed with swords, some of them. Finally come the queen's women. The other carriages with horses and elephants are not there and the music as well as the attendant daughters of the demi gods are left out. At Ajanta, the queen sits in a palanquin and begins taking her bath
, at Pagan too the vehicle is a palanquin borne by men.