One of the villages given by Vijayabáhu I. to the Lábhavásí monks. It was situated in Rájarattha not far from Pulatthipura (Cv.lx.68), probably between that town and Kotthasára. It is mentioned in an account of battles which apparently took place in the neighbourhood of Pulatthipura. Ibid., lxi.46; lxx.322; see also Cv. trans. i.221, n.4, and 229. n.2.