A Pacceka Buddha, chief among five hundred sons of Queen Padumavatī who were cast adrift as infants by her jealous co-wives before being miraculously found and restored to her.

A prince of Kumuda-nagara who, incited by the hostile monk Soṇa, attempted to kill his own father and, using a drunken elephant, tried and failed to kill the Buddha Piyadassī.

A Pacceka Buddha whose long chain of past lives ran from a monk reborn in hell for adultery, through devoted almsgiving to a Pacceka Buddha, to a miraculous lotus-birth in the deva world and finally as a king’s adopted son.

An elephant of King Devānampiyatissa which, together with Kuñjara, drew the plough marking out the boundaries of the Mahāvihāra.

A reciter of Jātaka stories who related the Kapi Jātaka to King Iḷanāga while the latter was in exile in Rohaṇa.

One of the chief elders present at the foundation ceremony of the Great Stupa in Anurādhapura.

A Sri Lankan elder renowned for his mastery of the Vinaya, whose opinions are widely cited in the Samantapāsādikā, and who was once consulted, as a physician, to cure the illness of King Vasabha’s queen.

The Bodhisatta in a former birth, as told in the Mahāpaduma Jātaka.