And when the Bodhisattva another time set out through the West gate of the city, in great splendor to the pleasure-garden, he saw a dead man, laid out on a bier under a linen sheet, surrounded by a troop of his relations all weeping, lamenting and wailing, with streaming hair, with ashes on their heads, beating their breasts and crying as they followed him.

The Bodhisattva spoke and said: "If there were no old age, no disease and no death, neither would there be the great misfortune that has its root in the five skandha's. But wherefore should man always be bound by age, disease and death ? Behold, I will return and meditate on the Salvation". (190: 8; 191: 1, 6).

From the text we naturally expect to see the corpse being escorted by its funeral train, but on the relief we find it lying in a tent under a tree, nothing better than a few boards with a saddle-shaped covering on sticks. The corpse looks quite as unattractive as the patient in the preceding relief but is not so distinct. Three persons, two of them certainly females, are busy with the dead man, kneeling round him; one supports his head on her arm, they are all much damaged. The Bodhisattva's soldiers are at the head of his escort again; the carriage is rather larger and has a handsome shaft ornamented with a lion rampant, upon which the coachman sits, his face turned to his master but now without the sembah. Another servant is sitting on the back of the carriage; the Bodhisattva here and in the next scene wears the halo that is missing on the two preceding reliefs; he is now making a gesture of aversion. The figures of the gods are quite dilapidated, for not much is left of the right hand side of the relief; according to Wilsen's drawing there were two of them, one holding a lotus. The clouds are here, as before.