[3] According to Vayu Purana, King Nimi established a city known as Jayantapura near the Gautam Ashram.

[4] Once, Nimi performed a yajña and invited Sage Vasishtha to be the main priest to conduct the ceremony.

After the yajña was conducted successfully, the priests asked the gods to return King Nimi to his corporal form.

[8] In several traditions, a righteous and edifying Videhan King Nimi or Nemi is mentioned, who travels to heaven and hell in a celestial chariot.

[9] The story relates that a certain King Makhadeva tells his barber that the latter should warn him as soon as the king has his first grey hair, a common memento mori motif found in ancient Indian literature,[10] which goes back to the ancient Indian conception of stages of life.

[17][18] Moreover, Asian religion scholar Naomi Appleton argues that there is a connection between the stories of the Videhan renouncing kings and the ideal of the solitary Buddha in Buddhism.

Solitary Buddhas are often depicted renouncing their worldly life because of certain signs in their environment or on their body, as in the case of Makkhadeva.