Samghanandi ［僧伽難提］ (n.d.) (;  Sōgyanandai): A monk of Shrāvastī in India around the third century. He is regarded as the sixteenth of Shakyamuni Buddha’s twenty-three, or the seventeenth of his twenty-four, successors. Born a prince, he renounced the royal life at age seven and entered the Buddhist Order. He received the transmission of the Buddha’s teachings from Rāhulabhadra and later transmitted them to Samghayashas.