毒の食事から胎児を救うため妊娠中の母が殺され、その後、次々と屠られた七頭の山羊の胎内に七日間宿されて誕生したため、体に斑点が残ったことで知られる、チャンダグッタの息子でアショーカ王の父であるマガダの王。

A king of Magadha, son of Candagutta and father of Asoka, whose birth—after his pregnant mother was killed to save him from poisoned food—involved being carried for seven days in the wombs of freshly slaughtered goats, leaving his body famously spotted.