One of the eight brahmins consulted at the Buddha’s birth to predict his future.

A devaputta who is chief of the Yāma gods and who, holding a yak’s-tail fan, accompanied the Buddha on his descent from the deva world at Saṅkassa.

A king of Bārāṇasī, son of Puthuvindhara and father of Kikī Brahmadatta.

A brahmin of Vesāli, learned in the three Vedas, who attained Arahantship at the very moment his head was being shaved upon joining the Order.