粗い髪ゆえにこの名を得た、アショーカ王とその正妃の息子で、増水した川を渡る際に百二十匹のワニを殺し副王に任じられ、カッサパ仏の時代に比丘に布施をしたことがあった人物

A son of Asoka and his chief queen, nicknamed for his coarse hair, who killed one hundred and twenty crocodiles crossing a flooded river and was made viceroy, having in the time of the Buddha Kassapa given alms to a monk.