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+- a [[person]].
+  - [[friend]].
+  - Attendant of the [[Buddha]] and third "patriarch" (although Gautama probably wouldn't have used that word) of Buddhism in this Kalpa IIUC, as he succeeded [[Kassapa]] who took the reigns of the Sangha after Gautama passed.