バーラーナシー王を閉じ込めた人食い夜叉に日々の食物の貢納を届ける役目に、両親のため志願する貧しくも孝行な息子が、優しい言葉で悪鬼の心を勝ち取り徳ある生活へと改心させる本生話。

A birth-story about a poor but devoted son who, for his parents’ sake, volunteers to bring the daily food tribute to a man-eating yakkha that had trapped the king of Bārāṇasī, and who wins the demon over with kind words and converts him to a virtuous life.