一则本生故事，讲一头狮子因被落枝所伤而唆使樵夫砍倒一棵树，树神却设计让樵夫反过来杀了狮子取皮，是佛陀在释迦族与拘利族争水之争中所说。

A birth story about a lion who provokes a carpenter into cutting down a tree after being struck by a falling branch, only for the tree spirit to have the carpenter kill the lion instead, told during the quarrel between the Sākyans and the Koliyans.