菩薩が鳩であった時、貪欲なカラスと友情を結んだ話で、貪食を報告された比丘になぞらえ、そのカラスがその比丘であるとされる本生話。

A birth-story about the Bodhisatta as a pigeon and his friendship with a greedy crow, told in reference to a monk reported for gluttony, who is identified with the crow.