A king who, in a former life, was Bāvarī the brahmin teacher; originally a master carpenter of Bārāṇasī, he led his fellow craftsmen to found a new kingdom in the Himalayan foothills and became its first ruler.

A king of Bārāṇasī and the Bodhisatta, born the son of King Brahmadatta and a firewood-gathering woman he met and married in a grove, as told in the Kaṭṭhahāri Jātaka.

A king who, as a master builder threatened with death by the prince he had built a magnificent palace for, escaped with his family on a wooden garuḍa-bird he had secretly constructed and founded his own kingdom in the Himalayas.