本生故事，講述一位以吝嗇聞名之人的故事，用以譬喻大目犍連度化一位同樣慳吝的長者，該長者即是這位吝嗇鬼的前身，此故事亦作為神通能使微小之物增多的例證。

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.