A Nága king, tamed by Moggallána. The Buddha and five hundred monks, on their way to Távatimsa one morning, travelled over the Nága king's abode as he was having a meal. In anger, the Nága coiled round Sineru and covered the road to Távatimsa..
Thereupon several members of the Buddha's retinue, including Ratthapála, Bhaddiya and Ráhula, offered to quell the Nága's power, but the Buddha would not agree until Moggallána sought permission to do so. It is said that no other monk had the power to face all the dangers created by the Naga and remain unscathed. Moggallaná and Nandopananda vied with one another in the exhibition of their iddhi power, and, in the end, Nandopananda had to acknowledge defeat. He was thereupon conducted to the Buddha, whose follower he became. When Anáthapindika heard of Moggallana's victory, he celebrated it by holding a great alms festival, lasting for seven days, for the Buddha and his monks. ThagA.ii.188f.; J.v.126.
In the Divyávadána (p.395) Nanda and Upananda are spoken of as two Nága kings.
One of the Lohakumbhi Nirayas. SA.i.111.