舎利弗との論争に敗れ、後に出家して仏陀の前で言葉を失った遊行の論客で、この出来事がパスーラ経の契機となった。

A wandering debater who was defeated in argument by Sāriputta, later ordained as a monk, and was struck speechless before the Buddha, an episode that occasioned the Pasūra Sutta.