Then a gods son named Samantakusuma descended among the company and falling at the feet of the Buddha said thus to him, holding his hands in sembah: "O Bhagavan, what is the name of the meditation, absorbed in which the Tathagata remains for seven days without changing the crossed position of his legs ?" Then answered the Tathagata this gods son and said: "Pr~tyaharavyuha, o son of the gods, is called the meditation in which absorbed the Tathagata remained seven days without changing the crossed position of his legs". Thereupon the gods son Samantakusuma praised the Tathagata with verses. (370: 3).

As it appears above, text and relief in some details are not quite in accord; so we might expect to see in this scene the homage of various sorts of gods as it is given in the 23rd chapter of the Lalitavistara, though it proceeds in the text the bath of perfumes. We should be all the more inclined to think this because otherwise this whole chapter would be passed over by the sculptor. Still I think we must reject such an explanation because the Buddha on this relief not only is receiving homage, but according to his attitude is occupied in making some declaration to one of the company who evidently shows that he is asking or declaring something. For this reason I believe that the sculptor again follows the usual sequence of the text and gives the question of Samantakusuma after the episode of the perfumes.

The Buddha for the first time has relinquished his bhumispar~aattitude; he sits in abhaya-mudra on his lotus cushion, still on the vajrasana under the Bodhi-tree; by way of variety a triangular space is left out behind his head. On both sides is placed a flowering plant or bouquet on a pedestal, next in the background is an umbrella and after that under some trees sit the gods in various attitudes. The front one on the right is the one with whom by his gesture the Buddha is talking, therefore Samantakusuma.