ウダカ・ラーマプッタとともに、出家後のゴータマが最初に師事した二人の師の一人で、無所有処定を体得した後、完全な解脱を求めてさらに進んだ。

One of the two teachers, along with Udaka Rāmaputta, whom Gotama first studied under after his renunciation, mastering the attainment of the sphere of nothingness before moving on in search of full liberation.