The solitary figure of Shakyamuni Buddha centrally positioned with a hollo, is seated on the top of a Lotus with his right hand in the earth-witness gesture and his left is holding his beggar bowl. Below him we can see there are eight auspicious substances for the ritual: Mirror, they believed to represent the offering goddess of light, Prabhavati or ‘cycle of light’, who presented Shakyamuni Buddha with a stainless mirror, symbolizing the clear karmic vision of all his previous life.
The medicine is derived from the brain glands of particular animals like elephants, bears, and cattle. The curd represents the offering of milk rice made by the virtuous lady Sujata. The durva grass represents the eight handfuls of grass presented to Shakyamuni by the grass cutter Sothiya or mangla as a medicine. The Bilva fruit was presented by Brahma, and the white right-spiralling conch, by Indra.
The cinnabar powder was represented to the Buddha by the Brahmin king, and the mustard seed, by the powerful bodhisattva, Vajrapani. Other than offerings there is an eight-faceted jewel usually identified as lapis lazuli- depicting the eight nadis of the heart chakra, the eight directions, and the Noble Eightfold path. Jewels usually placed at the bottom of the painting they light light-toned from the top and dark from the bottom usually painted in four colors blue, red, green, and orange in the sequence of blue and red, with green and orange in a repetitive manner completing the row, this color scheme represents the multicoloured lotus.
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