A birth-story of the Bodhisatta as king of Bārāṇasī who reformed his harsh-tongued mother by contrasting the courtiers’ reactions to a screeching jay and a singing cuckoo, told in reference to Anāthapiṇḍika’s quarrelsome daughter-in-law Sujātā.

A birth-story of the Bodhisatta as a royal chaplain whose king fell in love with a fruit-seller’s daughter’s voice and made her queen, told in reference to a famous quarrel between King Pasenadi and Queen Mallikā that the Buddha helped resolve.

A birth-story of the Bodhisatta as a landowner named Sujāta who feigned madness over a dead ox to cure his father of excessive grief over a grandfather’s death, told to a lay follower likewise consumed by grief after his father’s death.