本生故事，讲一只即将在祭祀亡灵的仪式上被宰的山羊，因忆起夙世苦尽而笑、又因预见屠者将受之苦报而哭，感动一位树神向围观众人说法。

A birth story of a goat about to be sacrificed at a Feast of the Dead, who laughs recalling its past lives’ end to misery yet weeps foreseeing the misery its slayer will suffer, moving a tree spirit to teach the assembled crowd.