当初は仏歯を軽んじていたが、後に仏教に帰依し、娘ヘーママーラーとその夫ダンタクマーラを通じて仏歯をスリランカへ送らせたカリンガの王。

A king of Kāliṅga who, after initially neglecting the Buddha’s Tooth Relic, embraced Buddhism and had the relic sent to Sri Lanka through his daughter Hemamālā and her husband Dantakumāra.