And while the Bodhisattva bathed himself, many hundred thousands of the gods sons filled the river with divine aloe-and sandalwood-powder and ointments and threw divine flowers of various colors into the water to do honor to the Bodhisattva. At that moment the river Nairanjana was filled with divine perfume and flowers and where the Bodhisattva had bathed in that sweetsmelling water, there hundred thousand millions of koti's of the gods sons scooped up the water and carried it each to his dwelling, there to make a caitya for it and adore it. (269: 13).

A good part of the lower part of the relief is taken up by the river. On the right, the rocky bank rises steeply up with only an occasional tree; on this side a pair of snakes push up their heads out of the water, adorned with the traditional jewel, and on the edge is the food-bowl of the Bodhisattva. His clothes are not laid beside it, for the sculptor has decorously kept them on and he is not in the water but appears on a very narrow flat lotus cushion in the middle of the river with, as usual, the tip of his garment in his left hand 1). Left, and separated from him by some trees on the bank, some figures of gods are kneeling on the water, scooping it up with small bowls. Still more to the left, the other river-bank is depicted with bushes growing on it, where are a pair of deer grazing, a tree with a peacock in it and in the corner a rock, in front of which glides a snake. In the river can be seen not only fishes but many flowers floating and still more blossoms and garlands are falling from the sky, dropped by the gods who hover on the clouds with bowls of flowers, one on the right and five on the lefthand; the two last of this group are evidently inhabitants of the Brahma-heaven in the dress of earthly ascetics and hermits. The relief is very well-executed but unfortunately some of the heavenly ones are rather damaged. The bathing scene is also to be found in the Serindian arts).