One of the Buddha’s two chief female disciples, a banker’s daughter from Sāvatthi named for her lotus-blue complexion, who attained Arahantship through meditation on a fire-device and was declared foremost among nuns in psychic power.

One of the two daughters of King Kassapa I of Sri Lanka, the other being Bodhī, after whom their father named a vihāra he built.

The deity to whom Sakka entrusted the guardianship of Sri Lanka and its people, who blessed Vijaya and his followers upon their landing, and who is generally identified, though not entirely, with Viṣṇu.