And when the night was past and the sun had risen, the Bodhisattva went to the park called Vimalavyuha, and there was received into the arms of Mahaprajapati Gautamf. Eighty thousand women came there and beheld the face of the Bodhisattva, and ten thousand girls came and five thousand brahmans. Then the ornements that the fortunate Cakya-king had caused to be made were placed upon the Bodhisattva's body. As soon they were put on, they were dimmed by the radiance of the Bodhisattva's body, they glittered no more, sparkled no more, they ceased to shine.

Whereupon Vimala, the godess of the park, appeared in heavenly person, stood before them, and spoke to king Cuddhodana and the great company of Cakya's, these verses: "He shines with his own glory, and is adorned by a hundred virtues; on him whose bodyis without blemish, jewels will lose their lustre; the radiance of the sun and moon, the stars and the glitter of the magi-stone, the brightness of Cakra and Brahma grows dim in the effulgence of his splendor. He, whose body is embellished with tokens, the signs of his former good deeds, what should he do with worthless adornments made by the hands of others ?" (121: 5,16; 122: 10, 21).

Two episodes of the above-quoted story are depicted on this relief, the offering of the ornaments and Vimala's explanation of their loss of brilliance. In the middle of the relief and giving the mise-en-scene for both pictures, are the trees of the park. On the right, on a throne in a pendapa sits the Bodhisattva, to be recognised by his nimbus; contrary to the text he is not shewn on Gautami's knee; she herself is not there, and the many thousand women are represented by one solitary attendant with a fly-whisk standing quite on the left, the brahmans are nowhere to be seen. Here too the sculptor has neglected the circumstantial details. In front and behind the Bodhisattva sits a servant, quite to the right, an armed soldier. On the left the fakya's are advancing with the ornements to be presented, they are dressed like ordinary courtiers, the front one is holding a headdress, those following, trays with rings and other trinkets.

On the left part of the relief, also a pendapa in which is seated a person in royal robes. The space behind him is filled with standing women, sitting servants and soldiers. In front of him sits a courtier and just under the last tree of the park, the female figure, who by her attitude must be addressing the seated royal personage. This woman can be no other than Vimala the godess. The chief figure according to Pleyte (p. 59) should be the Bodhisattva and though it is not impossible, as proved by the relief following, that the same person is depicted twice on the same panel, I am not able to agree with him about this, not only because the figure in question in contrast to the Bodhisattva wears no halo (compare foil. relief), but because the text states expressly that it is Quddhodana to whom the godess speaks. In my opinion the figure in the left hand pendapa is the king who is being told the cause of the miraculous occurrence.