One of Nārada Buddha’s two chief disciples, a brahmin who, while searching with a friend for the mythical Lake of Immortality, encountered the Buddha and was ordained under him.

A tree deity appearing in the Bhaddasāla Jātaka.

A tree in the Rakkhitavanasaṇḍa of the Pārileyyaka forest, beneath which the Buddha stayed during a period of solitary retreat.

A general of King Nanda who waged war against Candagutta, a conflict remembered for its eighty gruesome corpse dances on the battlefield.

A monk of Sri Lanka for whom King Mahāsīva, out of great devotion, built the Nāgaraṅgaṇa monastery east of Anurādhapura.