A thera who, from infancy compelled by past karma to eat only filth, lived for decades as a naked ascetic of extreme austerity until the Buddha converted him and he attained Arahantship.

A parrot, the Bodhisatta in a former birth, who as the adopted son of King Brahmadatta of Bārāṇasī taught him the five kinds of power and was made commander-in-chief.

A dog, companion of a she-goat, appearing in the Pūtimaṃsa Jātaka.