一則本生故事，講一隻豺狼慣於弄髒一處苦行者共用的水井，被捉住後辯稱自己不過是依循同類的習性，是佛陀就鹿野苑發生同樣情事所說。

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.