Pāli Dictionary

kokālika

Part of speech

noun · masculine

monastic

  • name of a monk; (1) Mahā-Kokālika, a brahmin and chief partisan of Devadatta; (2) Cūḷa-Kokālika, son of a wealthy man of Kokāli who slandered the Chief Disciples and was reborn in Paduma hell

  • SN 6.7

    atha kho subrahmā paccekabrahmā kokālikaṃ bhikkhuṃ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṃ gāthaṃ abhāsi

Encyclopedia

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Kokālika
Person

  • A monk and one of Devadatta’s chief partisans, who defended and praised him even as his fortunes declined, and who is identified in past-life Jātaka stories as his repeated accomplice.

Kokālika2
Person

  • A monk, distinct from the partisan of Devadatta, who slandered the two Chief Disciples out of jealousy after a dispute over alms and died in agony from boils after refusing to retract his accusations.

AN 10.89

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