前世でシッダッタ仏が食事をとっているのを見て水瓶を捧げ、六十一劫前にヴィマラという名の王となった阿羅漢で、おそらくサーヌ長老と同一人物である。

An arahant who, in a former birth, saw the Buddha Siddhattha taking his meal and brought him a pot of water, and sixty-one aeons ago became a king named Vimala, probably identical with the elder Sānu.