Awaking he didn’t see them any more. They had strayed to the hermit and listened to his preaching. The king found them there, and angrily called the preacher a liar, and menaced him with his sword. The wise man however, remained calm, and the king, embittered as he was by his wives’ supplications, came up to the pious teacher, and cut his hands, ears, nose and feet. The martyr, who only feared that the king could be said to have killed an innocent person, suffered much more from his sorrow for the king’s fall than from his own wounds, but when the evildoer left the dying man he saw the ground opening itself before him, and fell into the flaming depth. The frightened courtiers thought that the preacher himself had punished their master, and they asked for mercy, and dying the poor man blessed them, and also the murderer whose ruin had remained unknown to him. On 10 we see the king asleep, on the corner-sculpture we see him go off to seek for his wives. I suppose the first and 2^nd sculpture behind the corner [W. L. 105 and 106] refers to the widows on their way home. _Second_ corner, 5 [W. L., 111]. This sculpture brings us again in the presence of a king, the unbelieving prince of _Videha_, who lived a life of unjustice renouncing all virtues. There was a time when the Lord lived as a _devarshi_ [a wise one among the celestials] in the _Brahmâloka_, and descended to earth to convert the unbelieving ruler. As sure—he says—as this life has been preceded by other lives there will once come other future lives. He then speaks about the tortures of hell which fall to the evil-doer and unbeliever when he doesn’t mend his life, and ... the king acknowledges that he is in the right, and bids the Lord to lead him henceforth on the right path[51]. The sculpture need no further explication. _Second_ corner, 6, 7, 8 and 9 [W. L., 112, 113, 114 and 115]. Seven hundred astrayed and exhausted travellers meet on their way an elephant, the _Bodhisattva_. They had been expelled from their country with 300 others who had died on the way. By means of his trunk the elephant shows them the way to a stream where to quench their thirst and near which they will find a dead elephant whose meat will feed them. Along a shorter cut he speeds to the indicated spot, runs headlong into the bottom of a ravine and was smashed. It is on this spot that the hungry wanderers find his dead body, and angels descend from heaven to sing his praise. On 6 the exiles come across the elephant; on 7 we see them on their way to the place pointed out to them; on 8 the elephant is ready to fall into the precipice, and on 9 the saved ones worship the ashes of their rescuer. I suppose this homage to the ashes closed in a _tyaitya_, as if it were to indicate a preceding cremation, should be taken in a symbolical sense only. _Second_ corner, 10, 11, 12 and 13 [W. L., 116, 117, 118 and 119]. This is one of the most important _jâtakas_.