A Thera, mentioned once as staying at the Ghositārāma in Kosambī, with Mūsila, Paviṭṭha, and Ānanda. In the course of discussion he declares that, though aware of the nature of nibbāna, he is not an Arahant (S.ii.115 f). Elsewhere (A.iii.57 f) he is mentioned as staying in the Kukkuṭārāma in Pāṭaliputta. At that time King Muṇḍa was grieving over the death of his wife, Bhaddā, to the neglect of everything else, and his treasurer, Piyaka, suggested that he should visit Nārada. The king agreed, and Nārada taught him on the inevitability of old age, disease, death, etc. Muṇḍa was consoled, and buried the body of his wife, which he had until then preserved.

He may be identical with the Thera mentioned in the Petavatthu Commentary (PvA.2, 10, 11, 14, 204, 208, 210, 211) as finding out from various hungry ghosts the stories of their deeds, and in the Vimānavatthu Commentary (VvA.165, 169, 203) as visiting various mansion (vimāna) in the course of his wanderings among the deva worlds (devacārikā). He is stated as having repeated the stories he learnt to the compilers of teachings (dhammasaṅgāhaka) to be embodied in their rescensions.