The panel on the left side, containing eleven pictures, describes the scene where the sutra was delivered and the story behind the sutra in accordance with Shan-tao's Prefatory Part. The pictures from the bottom upwards show how Devadatta won the favor of Ajatashatru, how his father King Bimbisara was imprisoned, how Queen Vaidehi was confined in a room, how she was delivered from the suffering by the Buddha's preaching, and so on.