The story of a brahmin youth who learnt a charm from a wise outcaste (caṇḍāla). The charm had the power of making lovely and fragrant mangoes grow out of season. The youth exhibited his skill before the king, but when asked the name of his teacher he lied and said he had been taught it in Takkasilā. Immediately the charm escaped his memory and all his power deserted him. At the king’s suggestion he went back to the teacher to ask his forgiveness and to learn the charm anew, but the teacher would have none of him and the youth wandered away into the forest and died there.

The story is told in reference to Devadatta who had repudiated the Buddha as his teacher and as a result was born in Avīci (J.iv.200-7). The youth was a former birth of Devadatta.