讲述一位身怀绝技的杂技演员（菩萨）的本生故事：其师醉后吹嘘能表演自己并不会的五刃刀舞，不听徒弟劝阻执意尝试，结果被第五把刀刺死。

A Jātaka about a skilled acrobat, the Bodhisatta, whose drunken teacher boasted he could perform an unknown fifth-javelin dance and, ignoring his pupil’s warning, was fatally impaled attempting it.