品物の値踏みが不思議なほど正確な盲目の船長にまつわる本生話で、恩知らずの王に一度は退けられながらも商人たちが彼を船長として雇い、船が危険な伝説の海に迷い込んだとき彼の真実語が船を救った。

A birth-story about a blind master mariner whose uncannily accurate judgments of goods, once dismissed by an ungrateful king, led merchants to hire him as ship’s captain anyway, and whose act of truth saved the vessel when it strayed into perilous, legendary seas.