Now when king Bimbisara saw that the night was past, he went, with a great concourse of people, to the foot of the king of mountains Pandava and saw that mountain shining with radiance. After dismounting and proceeding on foot over the ground, he gazed with the greatest respect on the Bodhisattva who, after spreading grass on the ground, had seate d himself with legs crossed, immovable as the Mem. After saluting the feet of the Bodhisattva with his head, and having discoursed of several matters, the king spake: "I will give thee the half of my whole kingdom; disport thyself here with the various kinds of things desirable and cease from begging". And the Bodhisattva answered him with a gentle voice: "O king, may thou live long and rule thy kingdom ! As for me I have departed from a desirable kingdom and putting aside all thought thereof am become a wandering monk in order to find peace". (241: 9).

The whole left side of the relief is taken up by the rocky landscape with the Bodhisativa. On the left are the rocks with trees growing on them that give shelter to a variety of animals; a cockatoo, a peacock, a pair of doves billing, and some squirrels playing in the branches; then a tiger or jackal in a den and a couple of deer on the ground. On the right of all these, a sort of niche has been made in which the Bodhisattva sits with a waterjug on one side of him and an incense-burner on the other; he is sitting not on grass but on a lotus cushion on a mat, with an ordinary cushion at his back, in conversation with king Bimbisara on his right, who makes a sembah. The king with one servant is on a piece of rock, his other followers are sitting under the trees on the righthand of the relief, the umbrella-beareris of course among them. This same episode is also found at Aj an. ta l) combined with the preceding one, and is probably the subject of a Gandhara-relief 2) where the Bodhisattva sits under a tree with a king kneeling before him, who also has a group of followers with him. At Pagan we see him first alone, partaking of his food and again in conversation with Bimbisara 3).