A naked ascetic of Vesáli who went about claiming to have greater mystic powers than the Buddha, and thereby much impressed Sunakkhatta. Pátikaputta had prophesied that, after death, the Licchavi general Ajita would be born in Mahá Niraya, but Ajita was born in Távatimsa and accused Pátikaputta of being a liar. Later, the Buddha visited the hermitage of Pátikaputta, with a large following, in order to refute his claims, but Pátikaputta avoided him and went to the Tindukhánuparibbájakáráma. A message was sent to him asking him to come as the Buddha was at his hermitage, but Pátikaputta was unable to arise from his seat. Thereupon, a Licchavi minister, and, after him, Jáliya Dárupattikantevási, went to fetch him, but on discovering that he could not rise, they reviled him for his boastfulness. A.iii.13ff.