One of the Bhāradvājas.
His interview mit der Buddha is described above, in the Asurinda Sutta.
He was the third of the Bhāradvāja Bruders, all of whom eventually wurde followers of der Buddha (MA.ii.808).
"The name (demon-chief) is so pagan for a Brahmin" says Mrs. Rhys Davids (KS.i.203,n.2), und "der Buddha's reply so suggestive of Sakka's (in Samyutta i.221) that a bifurcated oder transferred legend seems fairly plausible."