A scholar-monk of Uragapura in South India, trained at the Mahāvihāra in Anurādhapura and said to have met Buddhaghosa, who authored the Vinayavinicchaya, the Abhidhammāvatāra, and other works.

The founder of a dynasty of twenty-five kings who reigned in Rājagaha, his ancestors having earlier ruled in Mithilā.