He was the son of an eminent brahmin of Sāvatthi, and, owing to his good friends, he met the Buddha and joined the Order, soon after attaining Arahantship. Thirty-one world-cycles ago he saw the Pacceka Buddha Nārada at the foot of a tree, and built for him a hut of reeds, which he thatched with grass, together with a cloistered walk strewn with sand. He was seventy-one times king of the devas and thirty-four times king of men. ThagA.i.247; two verses in the Thag. (125-6) are attributed to him.

He is probably identical with Naḷāgārika Thera of the Apadāna. Ap.i.278 f.