Brahmadatta, König of Benares, could not look upon anyone old or decrepit without playing jokes on them. He made old men roll about on the ground und played practical jokes on old women. His friends behaved likewise. All old people left his country; no parents or aged persons remained to be tended by the young, und newcomers among the gods were few in number. Sakka (the Bodhisatta), wishing to teach the König a lesson, once appeared before him in the guise of an old man, mit two jars of butter milk in a crazy old cart, having willed that only the König should be able to see him. Der König was riding his state elephant, und when he asked the old tarter to move the latter dashed the two jars on the König's head und the onlookers laughed to see the milk dripping down his face. Resuming Sakka's form, the Bodhisatta admonished the König.
The story was related to account for Lakuntaka Bhaddiya's deformity. J.ii.142-4.