A brahmin. Once when Mahá Kaccana was staying at Varaná on the banks of the Kaddamadaha, Árámadanda came to see him and asked him why nobles quarrelled with nobles, brahmins with brahmins, and householders with householders. "Because of their bondage and servitude to sensual lusts," answered Mahá Kaccána; and for the same reason recluses quarrelled with recluses. "Is there anybody in the world who has passed beyond this bondage?" "Yes," said Mahá Kaccána, "in Sávatthi lives the Exalted One," and he proceeded to describe the Buddha's virtues. Áramadanda stood up with clasped hands and, turning in the direction of Sávatthi, he uttered his adoration of the Buddha. Thenceforward he became a disciple of Mahá Kaccána. A.i.65-7.