The Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā mentions (MT.176) two theras of this name, one a resident of the Kurundacullaka-pariveṇa, and the other of the Kolambahālaka-pariveṇa.

They lived in the time of Bhāgineyya Dāṭhopatissa (see Hatthadāṭha), and about fifty years after the secession of the Sāgalikā from the Dhammaruci-nikāya they set up a school of their own, in which they borrowed the Ubhato-vihaṅga from the Dhammarucikā and the Khandaka and Parivāra from the Sāgalikas.