ヒマラヤで盲目の母象の世話をしていた象が、王家の象小屋に捕らわれるも母のもとへ帰るまで断食を続けたジャータカで、自らの母に献身的な比丘を称えるために語られた

A birth-story about an elephant who cared for his blind mother in the Himalayas, was captured for the royal stables but refused to eat until freed to return to her, told in praise of a monk devoted to his own mother.