一则本生故事，讲述菩萨转生为波罗奈国王，借由朝臣对刺耳鸟鸣与悦耳杜鹃声的不同反应，感化其言语粗暴的母亲改过，用以譬喻给孤独长者那位好争吵的儿媳妇苏阇多。

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.

一则本生故事，讲述菩萨转生为国师，其国王因迷恋一位卖果女之女的歌声而立她为王后，用以譬喻波斯匿王与摩利迦王后之间一场著名的争执，此争执后经佛陀调解平息。

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.

一则本生故事，讲述菩萨转生为地主苏阇多，假装为一头死牛发疯，以此治愈其父因祖父去世而过度哀伤的心病，用以劝解一位同样因丧父而陷于哀恸的在家信徒。

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.