一則本生故事，講一隻啄木鳥與好友 Kandagalaka 共享金合歡林中的食物，後者卻因驕傲不聽勸告獨自啄食樹幹、折喙身亡，是佛陀就提婆達多效彷彿陀終致自毀一事所說。

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.