本生故事，講述波羅奈國師從三次偶然的見聞中悟得道理而出家苦行，用以譬喻一位不斷考驗自己德行的婆羅門。

A birth story of the Bodhisatta as a chaplain of Bārāṇasī who became an ascetic after drawing moral lessons from three chance observations, told in reference to a brahmin who was forever testing his own virtue.

講述菩薩身為波羅奈國師，為測試學識與德行何者更受尊崇而假意行竊，發現德行更受敬重後請王准許出家修行的一則本生。

A Jātaka in which the Bodhisatta, chaplain to the king of Bārāṇasī, tests whether learning or virtue brings greater honour by feigning theft, and, on discovering virtue to be more esteemed, becomes an ascetic with the king’s leave.