大木に住む樹神が、そこに小鳥が住み着くのを見て予感に震える。その糞が最終的に木々を芽生えさせ、自分が頼るその木自体を圧倒して枯らしかねないからで、不善な欲望の危険にさらされた五百人の比丘に、疑うべきものを疑う教訓として説かれたジャータカ。

A Jātaka in which a tree-spirit inhabiting a great tree trembles with foreboding on seeing a small bird take up residence there, since its droppings would eventually sprout trees that could overwhelm and kill the very tree it depends on, told to five hundred monks at risk of unwholesome desires as a lesson in distrusting what deserves distrust.