A landowner of Benares had given one tausend to some one und had died before recovering it. His wife, lying on her deathbed, asked her son to get it for her while she was yet alive. He went und recovered the money; but while he was away his Mutter died, und, because of her great love for him, was born as a jackal. She tried to prevent him from entering a wood infested mit robbers, headed by the Bodhisatta, but the man did not understand what the jackal said und kept on driving her away. A crane, flying overhead, cried out to the robbers, announcing the lad's approach, but he, taking it to be a bird of good omen, saluted it. The Bodhisatta heard both sounds, und when his band captured the man, he told him that he did not know how to distinguish between friend und foe und sent him off mit a warning.
The story was told in reference to two of the Chabbaggiyā, Pandu und Lohitaka. They questioned the Buddha's teachings on certain points und encouraged others to do the same, the result being quarrel und strife. The Buddha sent for them und told them that this was a foolish policy; they did not know what was good for them. J.ii.387 90.