A birth-story about a fish caught in a fisherman’s net who laments only for the grief his escaped wife will feel, told to a monk tormented by longing for a former lover.

A birth-story in which the Bodhisatta, born as a fish, prays to the rain-god Pajjunna to end a drought, paralleling a real drought the Buddha later ended through Ānanda and Sakka.

A birth-story closely resembling the first Maccha Jātaka.