An epithet applied to the Buddha throughout the Tipiṭaka, variously explained as referring to rays emitted from his body or, more likely, as a patronymic marking the Gautamas’ claimed descent from the Vedic Aṅgirasa clan.

Another name (Aṅgirasa gahapati) for the householder Asayha.

One of the ten ancient seers, along with Aṭṭhaka, Vāmaka, Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa, and Bhagu, credited with conducting great sacrifices and composing the Vedas.

A celebrated ancient physician, whose name may connect him to the healing charms of the Atharva Veda.

A king listed among the descendants of Mahāsammata.

An ascetic named among eleven whose holy lives earned them rebirth in Brahma’s heaven, bypassing the world of hungry ghosts.

An ascetic, Aṅgīrasa Gotama, shot dead with a poisoned arrow by the thousand-armed King Ajjuna for disturbing his hunt.