一则本生故事，讲一位渔夫为了不让邻居分享自以为钓到的大鱼，设计支使妻子故意与邻里争吵以支开他们，结果自己在水中与钩住的树根搏斗时反被弄瞎双眼，衣物又遭盗贼窃走，妻子还因挑起争端被罚款挨打，一位树神目睹全程，此事讲述提婆达多诸事无一不以惨败告终。

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.