Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.3143

v1.c12.3143

Buddhaghosa⁶ says that this Kokālika was a brahmin and a pupil of Devadatta, and that he was called Mahā Kokālika to distinguish him from another Kokālika who was similarly called Cūḷa Kokālika (see Kokālika 2). There seems to be great confusions in the stories of these two men—if they were really two. In the *Jātaka Commentary*, for instance, the introductory stories of several of the Jātakas⁷ refer to the Takkāriya Jātaka for details of Kokālika, obviously having in mind Devadatta's partisan; but the introductory story of the Takkāriya Jātaka is identical with that related elsewhere of Cūḷa Kokālika.