一則本生故事，解說「打噴嚏後祝長壽」習俗的由來——一位商人之子因及時為父親祝壽而使其免遭一名受誓約束的食人夜叉吞噬，佛陀藉此宣說並廢止此一迷信習俗。

A birth-story explaining the origin of saying ‘long life’ after a sneeze, in which a trader’s son saves his father from a man-eating yakkha bound by a vow to devour anyone who sneezes unanswered, told when the Buddha forbade monks from following the same superstitious custom.