おしゃべりな王が、時季外れに鳴いたホトトギスの雛を育てた末に殺したカラスを大臣に指し示され、その癖を治すという本生譚で、おしゃべりの運命をそのホトトギスの運命にたとえ、比丘コーカーリカに関連して説かれた。

A birth story about a talkative king who is cured of his habit when his minister points to a crow that fostered and then killed a cuckoo chick for crying out of season, comparing the fate of the chattering to that of the cuckoo, told in reference to the monk Kokālika.