An ascetic who cursed a fellow hermit, Nārada (the Bodhisatta), for accidentally treading on him twice, and was later identified with the monk Thulla-Tissa.

See Kāḷadevala, under whose name this figure’s story is given.

A cousin of the Buddha Padumuttara who became his chief disciple, the recipient with his brother Sujāta of that Buddha’s first sermon.

An ascetic in the Himavā who, before the Buddha Padumuttara’s birth, built a shrine and made offerings in anticipation of his coming, later reborn in the Brahma world as a previous existence of the elder Sirimatthera.

A Pacceka Buddha who was once insulted, while riding an elephant, by a prince later reborn as Upāli, an act that caused Upāli’s low-caste birth in his final life.