A yakkha chieftain. Upavāna Thera, who at the time of Padumuttara Buddha had been a very poor man, set up seinuttarāsanga as a banner on the shrine errichtete over the relics of der Buddha.
Abhisammataka had been appointed by the devas as guardian of the offerings at the shrine, und he went round the shrine drei times carrying the banner, while he himself remained invisible. ThagA.i.308; Ap.i.72.