When he had finished eating he threw that golden food-bowl in the water without looking at it. And when it was thrown away, Sagara, the naga king, respectfuly carrying out his thought, took it up and turned towards his dwelling thinking "this is worthy to be honored". Thereupon the thousandeyed Purarndara (S:akra), assuming the form of a garuda, tried with the lightning in his beak to take the golden foodbowl from Sagara, the naga king, but when he was not able to do that, he begged courteously for it in his own person and carried it away to the heaven of the three and thirty gods, in order to make a caitya for it and adore it. (270: 5).

Two consecutive episodes from this tale are represented on the relief; the throwing away of the bowl and its being handed over to <:akra. The first scene is on the right; the Bodhisattva still sits on his lotus-cushion on the rocky bank, but his throne has been still more reduced and has a back of the plainest style. He has just thrown away the food-bowl w~th his right hand into the river flowing past the chair, the precious object is already in the hands of the kneeling Sagara, who has lost his headdress but unmistakenly preserves his identity by his attitude and the company of the two naga's kneeling behind him. Just behind these two the second scene begins. A pendapa quite on the left, enclosed in a palissade; there inside a female naga is sitting with two servants; this will be the naga dwelling. On the right, outside, is another seat with a row of jewel-pots underneath it that also indicate the domain of the naga's. On this seat is Sagara with a servant behind him and the bowl in his hand that he is on the point of handing over to the god sitting opposite, who holds out his hands for it. Behind this god sits also a companion; no other than Airavata with his elephant-ears, the trunk-headdress and (indistinct) the angku~a. So his master, in accordance with the text, is the god Qakra, already in his own person again to receive the bowl.