A gifted teacher, who lived in the Pipphali-vihāra at the foot of Soṇagiri. His father was a hunter, and all Soṇa’s efforts to lead him away from sin failed, until he was very old, when Soṇa ordained him just before his death. The old man saw the hell (niraya) and dogs coming to devour him. He shouted in his fright, and Soṇa took him on his bed to the vihāra and made him worship the cetiya, the Bodhi-tree, etc., and offered various things in his father’s name. He then saw the devaloka before him.³⁰