年老いた両親を世話し、自分の番が来ると狩られるために身を捧げたナンディヤという名の鹿の本生話で、王がすべての生き物に安全を与えるに至り、自分の両親を世話したことで批判された比丘を称えるために語られた。

A birth story of a deer named Nandiya who cared for his aged parents and offered himself in his turn to be hunted, moving the king to grant safety to all living beings, told to praise a monk criticized for tending his own parents.