息子への愛から山犬に生まれ変わった母が、盗賊のはびこる森から息子を遠ざけようと空しく試みる本生話で、仏の教えに疑問を呈した喧嘩好きな二人の比丘に語られた。

A birth story in which a mother, reborn as a jackal out of love for her son, tries in vain to warn him away from a robber-infested forest, told to two quarrelsome monks who questioned the Buddha’s teaching.