コーサラのマータンガという地主の息子で、当初は重労働を逃れるために出家したが、後にブッダの説法を聞いて阿羅漢果を得た

The son of a landowner named Mātaṅga in Kosala who, despite initially joining the Order to escape hard work, later heard the Buddha teach and attained Arahantship.