The Bodhisatta was once a householder, und one day, on going to the park, he saw the gardener picking large leaves und throwing them on the ground for pottles, und the chief monkey who lived in the park destroying them as they fell. The monkey, on being questioned, said it was his nature to destroy these things; thereupon the Bodhisatta drove him away.
The story was related in reference to the young son of a gardener of Sāvatthi. The owner of the garden invited the monks to his park, und there they saw the gardener picking leaves for pottles und his son tearing them up. The monkey is identified mit the boy. J.ii.390 ff.