本生故事講述佛陀應波斯匿王王后 Mallikā 之請，為國王所做的十六個惡夢作解，說明這些夢兆預示的是未來末法時代的道德敗壞，而非眼前的個人災禍。

A Jātaka in which the Buddha, at the request of King Pasenadi’s queen Mallikā, interprets the sixteen ominous dreams that troubled Pasenadi as portents of moral decline in a future degenerate age rather than of any immediate personal disaster.