A caravan leader who, after being cursed by an ox he had struck in anger, renounced his wealth in remorse and attained Arahantship, later composing verses illustrating worldly truths with a wealth of similes.

The head of the Kalyāṇi-mahāvihāra in Sri Lanka, so precise in timing his meals by the sun’s shadow that the local people learned to set their own schedules by his movements.