一則本生故事，講述菩薩轉生為波羅奈國王，藉由朝臣對刺耳鳥鳴與悅耳杜鵑聲的不同反應，感化其言語粗暴的母親改過，用以譬喻給孤獨長者那位好爭吵的兒媳婦蘇闍多。

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.

一則本生故事，講述菩薩轉生為國師，其國王因迷戀一位賣果女之女的歌聲而立她為王后，用以譬喻波斯匿王與摩利迦王后之間一場著名的爭執，此爭執後經佛陀調解平息。

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.

一則本生故事，講述菩薩轉生為地主蘇闍多，假裝為一頭死牛發瘋，以此治癒其父因祖父去世而過度哀傷的心病，用以勸解一位同樣因喪父而陷於哀慟的在家信徒。

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.