講述一位身懷絕技的雜技演員（菩薩）的本生故事：其師醉後吹噓能表演自己並不會的五刃刀舞，不聽徒弟勸阻執意嘗試，結果被第五把刀刺死。

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.