マッチカサンダの資産家・財務官で、生誕の日に街中が花で覆われたことからその名を得、法を説く在家信者の中で第一と仏陀に称えられた人物。

A householder-treasurer of Macchikāsaṇḍa declared by the Buddha foremost among lay disciples who taught the Doctrine, named for the flowers that covered his city on the day of his birth.