此经讲述一位天神向鸠摩罗迦叶提出关于挖掘蚁丘、途中遇到一连串象征性障碍、最终见到眼镜蛇的谜语，佛陀随后将其解释为关于身体与证得阿罗汉果之道的譬喻。

A discourse in which a deity poses to Kumāra-Kassapa a riddle about digging an anthill and encountering a series of symbolic obstacles culminating in a cobra, which the Buddha then explains as an allegory of the body and the path to Arahantship.