一则本生故事，讲一位商人诚实的儿子在两位兄长以谄媚讨好一位毁容的看池麻风病人未果后，凭真诚获赠满捧莲花，是佛陀就阿难为供养菩提树而寻莲一事所说。

A birth story about a merchant’s honest son who alone receives a full bunch of lotuses from a disfigured leper tending a tank, after his brothers try flattery instead, told in reference to Ānanda’s search for lotuses to offer at the Bodhi tree shrine.