商隊首領出身，因盛怒鞭打一頭牛而遭其咒罵，深感悔悟遂捨棄財產出家證得阿羅漢果，後作詩偈以豐富譬喻講述世間真理。

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.

斯里蘭卡迦梨耶尼大寺住持，憑日影精準掌握用齋時刻，當地民眾竟依其作息來校準自己的時間。

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.