Over the city gate they pitch a large tent, grandly adorned in all possible ways, in which the king and queen, with their ladies brilliantly arrayed,( 10) take up their residence (for the time).
The monks of the Gomati monastery, being mahayana students, and held in great reverence by the king, took precedence of all others in the procession.

At a distance of three or four le from the city, they made a four-wheeled image car, more than thirty cubits high, which looked like the great hall (of a monastery) moving along.

The seven precious substances( 11) were grandly displayed about it, with silken streamers and canopies hanging all around.

The (chief) image( 12) stood in the middle of the car, with two Bodhisattvas( 13) in attendance upon it, while devas( 14) were made to follow in waiting, all brilliantly carved in gold and silver, and hanging in the air.

When (the car) was a hundred paces from the gate, the king put off his crown of state, changed his dress for a fresh suit, and with bare feet, carrying in his hands flowers and incense, and with two rows of attending followers, went out at the gate to meet the image; and, with his head and face (bowed to the ground), he did homage at its feet, and then scattered the flowers and burnt the incense.