修行者たちの共同体の井戸を習慣的に汚す山犬についての本生譚で、捕まると自分の種の習性に従っただけだと弁明するという話であり、仏陀ご自身の時代にイシパタナで同じ違反が起きた後に説かれた。

A birth story about a jackal who habitually fouls an ascetic community’s well and, when caught, explains he was merely following the way of his kind, told after the same offense occurred at Isipatana in the Buddha’s own time.