A king of vultures. He dwelt with ten thousand vultures in Gijjhakūṭa and came to hear Kuṇāla teach. At the end of Kuṇāla’s discourse Ānanda, too, discoursed in the same strain, dwelling on the evil qualities of women “keeping to facts within his knowledge” (J.v.424, 447-50). He lived in the Kuṇāladaha with Nārada, Devala, Puṇṇamukha, the cuckoo, and Kuṇāla (SnA.i.359). In the present age the vulture-king was Ānanda Thera, the Buddha’s attendant (J.v.456).