The best of kings gave command to his followers: "Bring rich decorations to ornament the top of this most eminent palace, splendid with the flowers strewn about it, with delicious incense and perfumes, with umbrellas and banners and ripe tala-trees. Let twenty thousand splendidly-armoured warriors with j avelins, lances, arrows, spears and swords, surround the softly-echoing Dhrtarajya to guard it vigilantly and keep the queen from fear. Let the queen, surrounded by her women, like a daughter of the gods, her body bathed and anointed and adorned with splendid garments, recline like a godess on the pleasant couch, the feet of which are ornamented with all sorts of costly jewels, and that is strewn with many blossoms, while a thousand turya's discourse sweet music."

Then in the Kamadhatu-gods daughters who had seen the perfection of the body of the Bodhisattva, arose this thought: "What shall she be like, the young woman who is to bear this perfectly pure being ?" And full of curiosity they vanished in a moment from their dwelling in the abode of the gods and in the most magnificent of great cities, named Kapila, adorned with a hundred thousand gardens, in the palace of king Cuddhodana in the great pavilion Dhrtarastra, that resembles the abode of the immortals, these gods daughters wearing soft swaying robes, adorned with the immaculate lustre of beauty, their arms glittering with heavenly jewels, pointed with their fingers to queen Maya reclining on her splendid couch and spoke to one another in verses (43:15; 48: 17, 21).

Both passages here quoted are separated by several pages in the text where, among others, the episode of the next relief appears. It is not expressly stated that the king's command is carried out and Maya retires to the chambers made ready for her, but on the visit of the gods daughters, she is shown already installed there.