Incumbent of Kupikkala-vihāra. When Vaṭṭagāmaṇī was in hiding in the forest of Vessagiri, the elder once provided him with a meal, and the king, out of gratitude, made him a grant of land (Mhv.xxxiii.49). Later, the ministers wanted to revolt against the king on account of his cruelty to Tanasīva, but the elder and his colleague Mahātissa from Kambugallaka, prevented them from doing so (Mhv.xxxiii.76). When Vaṭṭagāmaṇī built the Abhayagiri-vihāra, he gave it into the charge of Mahātissa. Mhv.xxxiii.83.