An ancient Buddha who arose in the same world-cycle as the Buddha Dīpaṅkara.

A monk who lived in Sri Lanka and wrote the Sinhalese treatise Vinayārthasamuccaya.

A monk known as Araññaka Medhaṅkara who presided over the Buddhist council held under King Parakkamabāhu III.

A monk entrusted by King Parakkamabāhu IV with translating the Jātaka stories into Sinhalese, for whom the king built the Parakkamabāhu monastery and endowed it with several villages.

A fourteenth-century Burmese author who served as royal preceptor to Queen Bhaddā, mother of King Setibhinda of Muttimanagara, studied for a time in Sri Lanka, and wrote the Lokadīpasāra.