二十四仏の第二十一番目で、アノーマの遊園でクシャトリヤのスッパティータの子として生まれ、誕生の日に牛のように吼えたことからその名がついたという。

The twenty-first of the twenty-four Buddhas, born in the pleasance of Anoma to the warrior Suppatita, said to have roared like a bull on the day of his birth, from which his name derives.