Alone and quiet, living in penance and solitude, I pondered over this doctrine with little trouble and acquired insight therein. Then I went to the place where Arad. a Kalapa was and said: "Hast thou till thus far, Arada, pondered over this doctrine and acquired insight therein ?" And he said: "That is so, Gautama." Then said I unto him: "I also have pondered over this doctrine and acquired insight therein". He spoke and said: "Then, o Gautama, thou knowest the doctrine that I know, and I know that which thou knowest. Let us then together instruct this company of scholars". Thus Arada Kalapa honored me with the highest honor, placing me in the midst of his scholars for a common purpose. (239: 4).

In agreement with this last sentence, the Bodhisattva is sitting on a seat of honor, a round bench on feet with his lotus cushion on top, so that he sits higher than the others; to judge by his right hand held in vitarkamudra he is busy lecturing. The Bodhisattva is put quite on the right between two trees; next to him on the left is Arada Kalapa on a stone, turning towards him, he sits higher than the pupils but not as high as the Bodhisattva. The scholars fill up the rest of the relief to the left; they are not sitting under trees as they do in the preceding scene, but against a background of rocks, with trees, among which each is set in a small niche 1). They wear the same dress as those on the last relief and have rosaries; the one furthest to the left is turning away. Also at Pagan the Bodhisattva's stay with Arada Kalapa is to be seen; there it follows after the visit to Rajagrha a).

As Arada's doctrine does not entirely satisfy the Bodhisattva, he moves on, first to Magadha and then to Rajagrha where he settles on the stones of the Pandava mountain.