6. Uttara.-A brahmin youth (Uttara-mānava), pupil of Pārāsariya. He once visited the Buddha at Kajangalā in the Mukheluvana and the Buddha preached to him the Indriya-bhāvanā Sutta (M.iii.298ff).
Perhaps it is this same mānava that is mentioned in the Pāyāsi Sutta. When Pāyāsi Rājañña was converted by Kumāra Kassapa, he instituted almsgiving to all and sundry, but the gifts he gave consisted of such things as gruel and scraps of food and coarse robes. Uttara, who was one of his retainers, spoke sarcastically of Pāyāsi's generosity, and on being challenged by Pāyāsi to show what should be done, Uttara gave gladly and with his own hands excellent foods and garments. As a result, after death, while Pāyāsi was born only in the empty Serisakavimāna of the Cātummahārājika world, Uttara was born in Tāvatimsa. D.ii.354-7; see also VvA.297f. where the details are slightly different.