本生故事讲述一位商人受异国同行相助却不知回报、终遭对方仆从报复，因给孤独长者曾遭同行商人忘恩负义相待而说。

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.