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  • Devas (minor divinities) accompanying a bodhisattva in heaven) (detail)
  • Phra Malai receives alms offerings from lay people (detail of the right side)
  • The birth tale of Candakumara: on the left, the god Indra descends from heaven to destroy a ceremonial parasol marking an evil ceremony created in order to sacrifice the hero Prince Candakumara. To the right Candakumara on the throne; he is about to be sacrificed on a pyre by the three evil brahimns who are seated before him
  • The monk Phra Malai receiving a lotus bouquet, from a poor woodcutter, to carry up to heaven to offer at the Chulamani Pagoda or Chedi (Detail of left side)
  • The god Narada descending from heaven to dispel evil doctrines (left). To his right a princess on the throne and, with two attendants, prays for help from heaven. This story of Nerada is one of the last ten birth tales of the Buddha's previous livess
  • The monk Phra Malai and the god Indra conversing