Un jātaka raconte comment un pic partage la nourriture d’un bois d’acacias avec son ami Kandagalaka, qui devient orgueilleux et, ignorant les avertissements, picore seul un tronc jusqu’à se briser le bec et mourir ; enseigné en référence aux tentatives autodestructrices de Devadatta pour imiter le Bouddha.

A birth story about a woodpecker who shares food from an acacia wood with his friend Kandagalaka, who grows proud and, ignoring warnings, pecks at a trunk on his own until he breaks his beak and dies, told in reference to Devadatta’s self-destructive attempts to imitate the Buddha.