Viriya

A lay disciple's night-long walking meditation turns back robbers; the Buddha recalls an ascetic who answered a tree spirit's riddle of waking and sleeping.

Jātaka No. 56: a young monk wants to quit over the many rules. The Buddha gives him three, and tells of a farmer who carried a heavy gold bar home in pieces.

A wise but ugly prince loses his wife the moment she sees his face, and follows her through four disguises and a god-engineered siege to win her back.

After Buddha Kassapa's teaching decayed, Sakka — the Bodhisatta in that birth — turned his own charioteer Mātali into the hound Mahā-Kaṇha to terrify King Usīnara's realm back to righteousness.

A shipwrecked prince swims for seven days, wins a stolen throne through four tests, then walks away from it despite his own wife's every attempt to stop him.

Brahmin Saṅkha (No. 442) gives his shoes to a Paccekabuddha, then survives a shipwreck by swimming seven days until the sea-goddess Maṇimekhalā rescues him with a jeweled ship.

A poor smith wins a master's daughter by forging a needle so fine it pierces an anvil yet balances motionless on water, proving skill outranks reputation.

Raised by a carpenter, a clever boar returns to the jungle, organizes a terrified herd with military strategy, and defeats a man-eating tiger's ally.

A lazy student naps instead of gathering firewood, then tears green boughs in a panic, injuring his own eye and spoiling the morning fire so the whole party is late for a feast.

Seven brothers turned ascetics neglect their meditation for easy amusements, until a parrot who is secretly Sakka names them scavengers rather than sages.