The Bodhisativa is coming again from the right, still holding the tip of his garment with the left hand; he has no begg~ng-bowl, as mentioned in the text, but stretches out his empty right hand towards a woman kneeling before him with hands on the ground. On his other side sit three of the citizens looking on, and above on a cloud are two heavenly ones, who bring their homage. In our text, we hear nothing about them or about the incident with the woman, so that on this relief possibly some other version of the tale has been followed. On the left side of the relief we see a palace and between that and the kneeling svoman, a group that is quite clear but does not coincide w ith the text. Foremost, on the right, is the king in royal robes and with a globular gift, probably the bowl just filled with food, in his hands, which he evidently comes to offer to the Bodhisattva. Next to him stands the queen, behind them sits the suite, some kneeling; they carry the wellknown royal insignia. Thus while the text describes the king looking through his "ceil de boeuf" at the monk who is in the street, sending him a gift—that the "give" really means "sent" is seen by the context—and then ordering the monk to be followed (which would not be necessary if he had spoken to him himself), the sculptor of Barabudur brings the king in direct contact with the Bodhisattva. Possibly this is the result of a deviating text. At Ajanta in agreement with the text, the Bodhisattva is begging in the market-place opposite the palace and the king is not present 1), at Pagan the Bodhisattva is standing between two almsgivers 2).