怒りに任せて打ちすえた牛に呪われた後、悔恨して財産を捨てて阿羅漢果に達した隊商指導者で、後に豊富な譬喩をもって世俗の真理を示す詩句を作った

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.

スリランカのカリヤーニ大寺の長で、太陽の影で食事の時刻を正確に計ったため、地元の人々は彼の動きに合わせて自分たちの日課を定めるようになった

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.