Parosahassa Sutta. Relates how once, when the Buddha was at Jetavana with twelve hundred and fifty monks, instructing them and inciting them by means of a sermon on Nibbāna, Vangīsa, who was in the assembly, after obtaining the Buddha's permission, extolled him in a number of verses. S.i.192.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from