A former chaplain of the kings of Kosala who renounced the world to lead a large following in nature-worship, later converted along with his disciples after the Buddha and Mahā-Moggallāna subdued his pride.

A brahmin of Bārāṇasī and father of the Bodhisatta in his birth as Somadatta, whose petition to the king for an ox went comically awry.

A brahmin of Khemavatī and father of the Buddha Kakusandha.

A cross-reference to the entry Gahvaratīriya.