本生故事，讲述一位以吝啬闻名之人的故事，用以譬喻大目犍连度化一位同样悭吝的长者，该长者即是这位吝啬鬼的前身，此故事亦作为神通能使微小之物增多的例证。

A Jātaka telling of a notoriously miserly man, told in reference to Mahā-Moggallāna’s conversion of a similarly stingy banker with whom the earlier miser is identified, and cited as an example of psychic power used to expand something small.