On the now following one [143 W. L., 1 after the _fourth_ angle] we see him near another wise person, called Udraka[39], and as this one also turns out to be his inferior he leaves him accompanied by _five_ of his [Udraka’s] disciples. On the following one [145 W. L., 2 after the _fourth_ angle] he approaches _Rajargriha_[40], the capital of the empire of _Magadha_. Its king Bimbisâra and the queen come to visit him, and offer him half their empire, but the Bodhisattva doesn’t seek for worldly greatness. The two first scenes on the north side [151 and 153 W. L., _fifth_ angle, 1 and 2] place him and his five followers on the banks of a brook, vainly trying to seek strength [for wisdom] in a life of abstinence and penitence. He therefore breaks with that life and with his disciples, who wrongly suppose him an apostate and leave him alone to continue elsewhere their lives of penitence. Six years of misery convinced the wise _Shâkya_ that a sound spirit can live in a sound body only. The sculptor of these scenes incorrigibly hewed the disciples’ dislike in their Master’s changed opinion, which is to be seen in their spokesman’s posture. The hands of this man are a masterpiece of expression. It would be a loss never to be remedied if these hands were taken away, which, after all, would be of no value to the robber because they can’t give back the proportion to their arms and bodies. Nothing, however, is safe from the rapaciousness of foolish tourists-compilers. The _eighty-first_ sculpture [161 W. L., angle _seven_, 1] teaches us how Sujâtâ, the daughter of a village headman, takes care of the penitent, almost dying from exhaustion, and how she refreshes him with nutritive milk. We see an almost similar representation on the _eighty-fourth_ sculpture [167 W. L., angle _seven_, 4]. Such repetitions are more to be seen, though they are rare ones. The _Shâkya_ _Muni_ accomplished his purpose at last. He got all knowledge, and truth became his power. He has ripened to appear as _Buddha_, the _Enlightened_, the _awaking luminary celestial_, to come in the world wrapped in darkness, to teach the true doctrine, the _dharma_, and redeem mankind from sin. Seated on a heap of bulrush, under a fig-tree, afterwards sanctified as the _tree of knowledge_, the _bodhidruma_, he fights his last fight against the Evil Spirit which he knows to conquer once more; and the latter budges from his side for ever. On the _ninety-fourth_ sculpture [187 W. L., the first after the _first_ angle after the _western_ staircase] we see how the weapons of demons or false deities fall upon him as harmless flowers. A second and larger disc speaks of his increasing power, the magnificence of the sun rising in full glory.