[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c12.3159 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.3159 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.3159 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c12.3159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.3159) 1. Kokālika (Kokāliya)¹ Sutta.—The story of Kokālika—according to Buddhaghosa (SnA. ii. 473), to be distinguished as Cūḷa Kokālika. It contains the verses preached by the Buddha to Kokālika. The verses describe the evil of back-biting and the terrors that await the back-biter after death. The Sutta Nipāta contains twenty-two verses (657-78). The Sutta Nipāta Commentary says² that the last two stanzas are not explained in the Mahā Aṭṭhakathā, and that therefore they did not belong to the original sutta. Of the remaining twenty the last fourteen (663-76) are called by Buddhaghosa the Turitavatthugāthā, and he says that they were uttered by Moggallāna as Kokālika lay dying, by way of admonition, and that, according to others, Mahā Brahma was the speaker. The first three stanzas (658-60) are, in the Saṃyutta Nikāya,³ attributed to Tudu. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya,⁴ also, Tudu speaks them; but according to this version the Buddha repeats them. - [Previous: v1.c12.3158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.3158) - [Next: v1.c12.3160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.3160) - [Up: v1.c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.3159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.3159) · Pramāṇa