A young brahmin, sixteen years old, well versed in the Vedas, and with his head shaven. He was "of good stock, well informed, a good speaker and a scholar of ability." He visited the Buddha at Opasáda, where he interrupted a conversation which the Buddha was holding with some aged brahmins; they rebuked him for interrupting his elders, but Cankí (q.v.), who happened to arrive at that moment, interceded on his behalf. The Buddha, knowing that Kápathika had questions to ask of him, gave him an opportunity for so doing, and there followed a discussion on various points, detailed in the Cankí Sutta. At the end of the discussion the youth declared himself a disciple of the Buddha (M.ii.168ff). In the Sutta the Buddha addresses Kápathika as Bháradvája, perhaps because he belonged to that gotta.