Now while I continued these six years, my russet garments had become threadbare and I thought: "It would be a good thing had I something to cover my privy parts". At that time, a slave of Sujata, the daughter of the village chief, had died, her name was Radha; she had been wrapped in a hempen cloth, carried to the graveyard and left there. Then I saw that rag and drew it towards me with my left foot, stretched out my right hand and bent to pick it up.

Thereupon the Bodhisattva thought thus: "I have got a piece of rag; now it would be good if I had water". Then the gods struck on that place with their hands on the earth and a pond appeared. Again the Bodhisattva thought: "Now have I water; if I could obtain also a stone wherewith to wash the cloth, it would be well". Then at that moment on that place Qakra caused a stone to appear and the Bodhisattva began to wash the cloth. Thereupon spake Qakra, king of thle gods, unto the Bodhisattva thus: "Give it unto me, noble being, that I may wash it". Yet the Bodhisattva, to show that a wandering monk does his own work, gave not that ragged cloth to Qakra, but washed it with his own hands. Heavy and faint of body after stepping into the pond, he would have stepped out again. But Mara, the Evil one, possessed with the sin of envy, caused the banks of the pond to increase greatly in height. At the side of the pond grew a great kakubha-tree; and the Bodhisattva spoke unto the godess thereof to please her according to the custom of the world: "Let a branch of thy tree bend towards me, 0 godess". And she let down a branch of the tree and holding it fast the Bodhisattva came up out of the water. When he was come out, he made under that kakubha-tree a coat of the ragged cloth and sewed it. (265: 16; 266: 12, 16).

The Bodhisattva stands nearly in the middle of the relief on the large flat stone the text speaks of. He has the cloth in his left hand, evidently about to wash it in the pond strewn on the left, surrounded by trees and adorned with lotus flowers and plants, some of them with waterfowls on them. Behind the Bodhisattva kneels an umbrella-bearer; further to the right stand a group of gods, the front one makes a sembah to the Bodhisattva who holds his right hand in vitarka-mudra: so this is clearly the moment when the Bodhisattva refuses the offer for washing his cloth. The god who makes the request should be Qakra, and here the sculptor has been good enough to confirm the fact, for the first of the four followers of the god wears a headdress arranged in the style of a trunk, has elephant ears and holds the angkupa in his hand; so he can be no other than Airavata, Cakra's faithful companion. Quite to the right we see a rocky landscape with trees and some animals, and on the extreme left next to the pond is the kakubha-tree that plays its part at the end of the episode. The godess of the tree is already kneeling under the tree and makes a respectful sembah to the Bodhisattva.