兄アマンダガーマニー・アバヤを殺害して王位を奪ったスリランカの王で、裏切った比丘六十人を投げ込んだ洞窟にちなんでその名を得たとされる。

A king of Sri Lanka who seized the throne by killing his elder brother Āmaṇḍagāmaṇī-Abhaya, and who is said to owe his name to a cave into which he had sixty traitorous monks cast.