雄の子を去勢する猿王の父の習慣を生き延びた若い猿の本生話で、後に父をしのぐ力を得て湖の悪鬼を越えて蓮を採りに行き、その技量、勇気、機知への賞賛が年老いた王の心を打ち砕いた。

A birth story of a young monkey who survived his father the monkey-king’s habit of castrating male offspring, later out-strengthening him and fetching lotuses past a lake ogre, whose praise of his skill, courage and resource broke the old king’s heart.