此經講述一位天神向鳩摩羅迦葉提出關於挖掘蟻丘、途中遇到一連串象徵性障礙、最終見到眼鏡蛇的謎語，佛陀隨後將其解釋為關於身體與證得阿羅漢果之道的譬喻。

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.