The following sculpture after the eighth corner, which represents the meeting with the king, is almost wholly lost, the other one is lost at all.
Ninth corner, 5, 6, 7 and 8 [W. L., 90, 91, 92 and 93].
Another king once pursued a sharabha sharabha descends into the cleft in order to rescue the fallen man, and help him on his way home after having admonished him to persevere in all princely virtues.
The chasing king we see on 5; on 6 the hunter stands on the brink of the cleft, on 7 we see the stag [the Lord] run to assist the fallen man, and on 8 the latter bids his rescuer farewell.
Southern staircase, 2, 3, 4 and 5 [W. L. 95, 96, 97 and 98].
In another life the Master ruled as a ruru [another kind of stag] over all other wild animals. One day he rescued a traveller out of a swollen mountain-stream, and for his only reward he wished the saved man to be silent about the event.
Now the queen, whose dreams had never turned out to be false ones, had dreamed of a stag who preached the doctrine sitting on a throne. The king therefore offered a rich reward to him who could show him this miracle of an animal.
The drowned person was a poor fellow, and breaking his promise, he led the king into the wood and showed him the ruru, but doing this the hand which had served him to indicate the animal, fell from his arm as if it had been cut by a sword.
The stag now asked the king who had conducted him there, the prince mentions his guide’s name, and when the ruru recognises and reproaches him his breach of faith, and whilst the king has the intention to shoot at the man, the noble animal sues the weak man’s mercy who had by his own fault recklessly lost his welfare in this, and in a future world.
The king pardons the guilty one and conducts the stag to his palace, and throning there the ruru preaches the law of love before the whole court.