一则本生故事，讲一位国王偏爱新兵而冷落老将，因此吃了败仗，他的祭司便讲述一位牧羊人的故事：此人一心照料途经的一群野鹿，却任由自家山羊活活饿死，此事讲给同样因偏心而战败的波斯匿王听，那位失策的国王被认作阿难的前生。

A Jātaka about a king who neglects his veteran soldiers in favour of new recruits and is defeated in battle, whereupon his chaplain relates the tale of a goatherd who let his own flock starve while tending a passing herd of wild deer, told to King Pasenadi after he suffered a similar defeat for the same reason, with the negligent king identified as an earlier life of Ānanda.