一則本生故事，講一位漁夫為了不讓鄰居分享自以為釣到的大魚，設計支使妻子故意與鄰里爭吵以支開他們，結果自己在水中與鉤住的樹根搏鬥時反被弄瞎雙眼，衣物又遭盜賊竊走，妻子還因挑起爭端被罰款捱打，一位樹神目睹全程，此事講述提婆達多諸事無一不以慘敗告終。

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.