One of the Four Great Kings, guardian deity of the Eastern Quarter, whose followers are the Gandhabbā and who was present at the teaching of the Mahāsamaya and Āṭānāṭiya Suttas.

A mythical king listed among righteous rulers said to have entered Sakka’s heaven through their virtue and service to holy men.

The name shared by two kings, contemporaries and vassals of King Reṇu, ruling respectively over Aṅga from Campā and Kāsī from Bārāṇasī.

A Nāga king who married Samuddajā, princess of Bārāṇasī, and fathered four sons including Bhūridatta, identified with Suddhodana; his story is told in the Bhūridatta Jātaka.

The Bodhisatta born as king of the geese, who was caught in a hunter’s snare, refused to abandon by his loyal friend Sumukha, and who won over both hunter and king, ultimately teaching them the Dhamma.

The golden-hued family of geese to which the goose-king Dhataraṭṭha belonged, whose entire lineage perished when a giant spider’s web trapped them after an unusually long rainy season.

A class of powerful Nāgā descended from the Nāga king Dhataraṭṭha and his queen Samuddajā, dwelling in the Sattasidantara sea.