一则本生故事，讲述一头金鹿王落入猎人陷阱，其弟妹坚持不离不弃、宁死相随，感动猎人将其释放，金鹿随后向猎人及国王、王后说法，讲述背景与阿难舍身欲挡狂象保护佛陀有关。

A birth-story about a golden deer king, caught in a hunter’s trap, whose brother and sister refuse to abandon him and whose devotion moves the hunter to free him, after which the deer teaches the Dhamma to the hunter, the king, and the queen, told in reference to Ānanda’s attempt to shield the Buddha from a charging elephant.