本生故事，講一隻幼猴逃過身為猴王的父親閹割雄性子嗣的習性，長大後力壓父親，並穿越湖中夜叉險境採得蓮花；夜叉贊其技藝、勇氣與機智三全，猴王聞之心碎而死。

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.