隣人に想像上の獲物の分け前を要求させまいとした漁師の企みが大失敗に終わる本生譚で、彼はただの引っかかりと格闘して失明し、衣服を盗まれ、けんかを起こすよう指示していた妻は罰金を科され殴られる——これを樹神が目撃し、提婆達多のあらゆる企みが破滅に終わる例として説かれた。

A Jātaka about a fisherman whose scheme to keep neighbours from claiming a share of an imagined catch backfires disastrously — he is blinded wrestling with a mere snag, robbed of his clothes, and his wife is fined and beaten for a quarrel he had instructed her to start — witnessed by a tree-spirit, told about Devadatta as an example of every scheme of his ending in ruin.