一则本生故事，讲述菩萨转生为狮子，其同伴因一只豺狼模仿狮吼而羞愧沉默，用以譬喻拘迦利迦比丘妄图媲美博学比丘辩才而失败之事。

A birth-story of the Bodhisatta as a lion whose companions fell silent in shame when a jackal tried to imitate their roar, told in reference to the monk Kokālika’s failed attempt to match the eloquence of learned monks.

一则本生故事，讲述菩萨转生为名叫摩诃达陀罗的龙族，护佑其性情暴躁的弟弟朱罗达陀罗免遭放逐，并在两人流放波罗奈期间约束其暴行，用以譬喻一位脾气暴躁的比丘。

A birth-story of the Bodhisatta as a Nāga named Mahādaddara who protected his passionate younger brother Cūḷadaddara from expulsion and later restrained his violence during their exile in Bārāṇasī, told in reference to a hot-tempered monk.

一则本生故事，讲述一位博学导师饲养的鹧鸪，因常年聆听而通晓吠陀，导师去世后代为教导弟子，后被一名恶苦行者所杀，其狮虎挚友为其复仇；用以譬喻提婆达多多次谋害佛陀之事。

A birth-story of a learned teacher’s pet partridge, who had memorised the Vedas by listening and later taught the master’s students after his death, until a wicked ascetic killed it and was in turn slain by its lion and tiger friends; told in reference to Devadatta’s attempts on the Buddha’s life.