Obeyesekere, Conscience, p. 244. He was born under a Banyan tree, hence the name. Said to have been the one who converted Aśoka.
Name of a stag in a Jātaka story. Ulrich Schneider, On the Buddhist Origin of the Christian Legend of Placidus = St. Eustachius, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, n.s. vols. 36-37 (1961-1962), p. 12-22.
