In the niche under the gabled ceiling is a cross-legged bodhisattva, and above it are nine heavenly musicians, and under the two ends of the beam and the rafters are wooden brackets. On the two sides out of the niche are the thousand Buddha motifs. Below the niche is an illustration of Defeating Mara. This is the earliest mural of this theme in Dunhuang caves. In the center of the picture, Sakyamuni sits on the throne under the bodhi tree with his hands in Bhumyakramana mudra, on his two sides are Mara\'s armies holding various weapon to attack. The scene on the lower right side depicts Mara\'s three daughters trying to tempt Sakyamuni. They each wear a crown, a cloak, and a long skirts of Kizil style. With magical power, Sakyamuni transformed them into three ugly old women, which is painted on the left side.Right to the west side of Mara\'s Attack is the tale of the Sattva Jataka. The story goes like this: Three princes went hunting in the forests and found a hungry tigress with a few cubs on their way. The third prince sacrificed himself to save the tigeress. Various episodes of different time are arranged in a same picture, which are separated from each other by the mountains, forests and motifs. The episodes include: three princes seeing a hungry tigress and its cubs in the middle on the upper part, Sattva sticking his throat and jumping down on the upper west side; Sattva feeding himself to the tigress on the lower west, two brothers reporting to their parents on the lower east, and finally his parents crying in sorrow and building a pagoda for Sattva on the upper east side.The wall in the back is also divided into three registers: the upper register has seventeen heavenly musicians, and the middle register has four arch niches containing either a preaching Buddha or a dhyana Buddha. There were originally two flanking attendant bodhisattvas, now only one is survived in the second and third niches. The interior walls of the four niches respectively have four, six, six and eight lotuses and children playing on lotuses. The niches are connected to each other by the niche beams decorated with honeysuckle motifs. Out of the niche on the west end are an apsara and two attendant bodhisattvas. The west side of the Sattva Jataka is filled with the thousand Buddha motifs, and in the center of which is a preaching scene. Below the niches is a decorative border and below the border are twenty-five yakshas.