菩薩が鳩として生まれ、魚を盗んで料理人に罰せられた欲深い烏と友となった本生話で、その烏と同一視された欲深い比丘に関連して説かれたもの

A birth-story in which the Bodhisatta, born as a pigeon, befriended a greedy crow who was caught stealing fish and punished by the cook, told in reference to a greedy monk identified with the crow.

同じ鳩と烏の本生話の異本で、魚を盗んだ烏が受ける罰の内容が主な相違点となっている

A variant version of the same pigeon-and-crow birth-story, differing chiefly in the punishment inflicted on the crow for stealing fish.