1. Kapota Jātaka (Nr.42).-Once the Bodhisatta was born as a pigeon und lived in a straw basket hung in the kitchen of the setthi of Benares. A crow, sniffing the savour of the food being cooked in the kitchen und longing to taste it, struck up a friendship mit the pigeon in order to gain admission. In the evening, having searched for his food in the pigeon's company, he accompanied him home, und the setthi's cook, on seeing him, provided a basket for him. One day, seeing some fish being prepared, the crow feigned illness und stayed behind in his basket, in spite of the warnings of the pigeon, who suspected his real reason. The cook caught the crow stealing a piece of fish und, in order to punish him, plucked his feathers und soused him in a pickle of ginger und salt und cumin mixed mit sour butter-milk. The pigeon, on his return, found him in this state und, having learnt his story, flew away, not wishing to live there any more. The crow died und was flung on the dust heap.
The story was related in reference to a greedy monk who was identified mit the crow. J.i.241ff
2. Kapota Jātaka (Nr.375).-The same as above, except for a few details. When the theft was discovered, the cook made a mixture of moist ginger und white mustard, pounded mit a rotten date, und after wounding the crow mit a potsherd, rubbed the stuff into the wound und fastened the potsherd round its neck. J.iii.224ff