Then after him came prince Sundarananda out of the city. He saw the elephant lying dead by the gateway and asked: "By whom was it killed"? Then the multitude answered: "ByDevadatta". And he said: "It is an evil deed of Devadatta". Andlaying hold of the elephant by the tail, he drew it outside the gates of the city. Immediately after that came the Bodhisattva out of the gate, in a carriage; he saw the dead elephant and asked: "Who has Sided it" ? And they answered: "Devadatta", and he said: "This is an evil deed of Devadatta. And by whom was it dragged outside the gate?" They replied: "By Sundarananda." Then said the prince: "This is a good deed of Sundarananda. Yet this beast bath a great carcase that when it rots win fill the whole city with stench". Then standing on the carriage, he put out one foot to the ground and with his great toe lifted up the elephant by the tail and hurled it over seven waRs and seven moats, till it was a kro,ca distant beyond the city. (144: 15).

This relief is unfortunately very much damaged and the Bodhisattva as wed as the elephant are missing. On what is left of the right side, we can see a fragment of the carriage particularly mentioned in the text, with some of the retinue armed like those of Devadatta in the preceding relief. As the next scene brings us into the midst of the trials of skill, and as it is hard y likely that Devadatta's wicked deed should be depicted and the stiu-mightier show of strength given by the Bodhisattva left unrecorded, the left half of the relief must surely have pourtrayed the hurling away of the elephant. Both episodes are shown on the before mentioned Gandhara-relief; and there the incident of Nanda dragging the animal away, is inserted between them. In Tun-Huang the scene is different, the Bodhisattva lifting the elephant on his hands). If we may trust our eyes, two of the elephant's feet can be descried on the lefthand lower corner of the dilapidated Barabudur relief.