An elder of Sri Lanka. He was a Majjhimabhāṇaka, and, once, going to Revata (8) who lived in the Malaya country of Sri Lanka, he asked him for a subject of meditation. The latter knowing that the former was a Majjhimabhāṇake spoke to him of the difficulties facing such a one in meditation. The other at once agreed not to recite the Majjhimanikāya until his meditations should prove fruitful. He was given a topic of meditation, and attained Arahantship nineteen years later. However, when, at the end of that time, he again started to recite the Majjhimanikāya, he was never in doubt as to a single consonant. Vism.i.95.