히말라야에서 눈먼 어미를 돌보던 코끼리가 왕가의 코끼리 우리에 붙잡혀 갔지만 어미에게 돌아가도록 풀려날 때까지 단식을 계속한 자타카로, 자신의 어머니에게 헌신적인 한 비구를 칭찬하기 위해 들려주었다

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.