異国で同業者に助けられた商人が、その恩に報いることを拒んだために、その同業者の使用人たちに仕返しされたという物語で、給孤独長者自身が同業の商人から受けた恩知らずな仕打ちの経験に関連して説かれた本生話。

A birth-story about a merchant who, having been helped by a colleague abroad, refuses to return the favour and is taken revenge upon by that colleague’s servants, told in reference to Anāthapiṇḍika’s own experience of ingratitude at the hands of a fellow merchant.