A dissenting Buddhist sect of Sri Lanka that broke away from the Theravāda orthodoxy at Abhayagiri after its leader, expelled from the Mahāvihāra, took the name Dhammaruci from visiting South Indian monks.

An Arahant whose earlier life as the youth Megha, disciple of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara’s era, was derailed by matricide and rebirth as a fish, until he remembered Dīpaṅkara’s prophecy and was eventually reborn to hear the Buddha teach and attain Arahantship.

A nāga king who offered grass for a seat to the Buddha Atthadassī.