Last Existence: Buddha performing a miracle before ascetics

Part of a curvilinear frieze depicting the Buddha performing a miracle before ascetics. The Buddha requests three ascetic brothers who were devoted to the fire god to spend the night in the hall of the fire temple. The eldest brother allows the Buddha to stay, trusting that the snake dwelling in the temple would subjugate him. The Buddha eventually emerges unharmed from the temple with the snake lying in his alms bowl. The three ascetics brothers convert to the dharma together with their disciples. The base is plain. The cornice is decorated with a row of dentils-and-bars with bars of the same height and smaller width. The top face shows a rectangular socket. Remains of a rectangular tenon are found on the bottom face. On the right, the Buddha is sitting inside a cave in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā. He is wrapped in the overrobe covering hands and feet. Under him is the outline of the snake with wavy body. On the right of the cave was a male figure, of which only the torso is preserved. On the left is Vajrapāṇi, who is sitting frontally on the cave and looking at the Buddha. He is holding the vajra in the right hand, the left is resting on the leg. He has short curly hair. Next are six ascetics alternating young and elder and all standing, except the first one who is kneeling. This one and the second have joined hands. The other figures are raising the left hand open up. A branch with lanceolate leaves is carved on the extreme left.