A monk of Sri Lanka to whom is sometimes ascribed the Jinālaṅkāra. He is supposed to have lived about 426 B.C. on the west coast of Sri Lanka, at the head of a congregation of monks (P.L.C.18).

According to others, he is said to have written both the Jinālaṅkāra and its Subcommentary (ṭīkā), e.g., Gv.72.