사리불과의 논쟁에서 패배하여 훗날 출가한 유행 논객으로, 부처님 앞에서 말문이 막힌 이 일화가 파수라경의 계기가 되었다.

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.