ヴィマラ長老とともに出家したバーラーナシーのバラモン学者で、後にマハーカッサパの下で修行して阿羅漢果を得、ついには旧友を訓戒し改心させるために戻ってきた。

A Brahmin scholar of Bārāṇasī who joined the Order alongside Vimala Thera, later trained under Mahā-Kassapa to attain Arahantship, and eventually returned to admonish and reform his former companion.