一則本生故事，講一位國王偏愛新兵而冷落老將，因此吃了敗仗，他的祭司便講述一位牧羊人的故事：此人一心照料途經的一群野鹿，卻任由自家山羊活活餓死，此事講給同樣因偏心而戰敗的波斯匿王聽，那位失策的國王被認作阿難的前生。

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.