A birth-story about a turtle who refused to leave his drying lake before a drought and was accidentally killed by a potter digging clay, told to a young man who wisely fled a plague through a hole in his wall.

A birth-story about a talkative turtle who fell to his death after opening his mouth to answer taunting children while being carried through the air by two geese, told in reference to the talkative monk Kokālika.

A birth-story about a monkey who insulted a basking turtle and was caught by him in retaliation, told in reference to the quarrelsome ministers of the king of Kosala.