An Arahant thera, son of a millionaire of Sāvatthi, who renounced marriage to enter the Order and, according to the Theragāthā, had made offerings to Vipassī Buddha in a past life.

A town between Kusinārā and Sāvatthi that the Buddha once visited and stayed in, the site of a dispute over an ex-barber monk’s improper alms-collecting and of a story the Buddha later told about a lightning strike there.