A Jātaka in which a monkey-king, entrusted with watering a royal garden, orders the trees pulled up to check their roots before watering—an object lesson, drawn from a similar real incident, in how good intentions without wisdom cause harm.

A variant of the same Jātaka in which the monkeys are asked to water the garden for seven days, told in connection with a similar incident involving a boy in Dakkhiṇāgiri rather than Kosala.