A Khattiya king of Haṃsavati, father of Padumuttara Buddha (J.i.37; Bu.xii.19). He had, by another wife, a daughter Nandā, who became the therī Pakulā in the present age (ThigA.91). Once, with twenty of his ministers and twenty thousand of his subjects, he appeared before Padumuttara Buddha at Mithilā and, having received the “ehi-bhikkhu-pabbajjā,” they became Arahants (MA.ii.722; DA.ii.488). The Buddha went back with them to Haṃsavatī where he taught the Buddhavaṃsa (BuA.160).

One of Ānanda’s sons was the prince Sumana, step-brother to Padumuttara, who became Ānanda, the personal attendant of Gotama Buddha. ThagA.ii.122.