[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) › v2.c27.32 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.32 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.32 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.32) Pakudha-Kaccāyana (Pakudha-Kātiyāna, Kakudha-Kaccāyana, Kakuda-Kātiyāna).—Head of one of the six heretical sects of the Buddha's time. In the Sāmaññaphala Sutta,¹ Ajātasattu is said to have visited him and obtained from him an exposition of his teaching, which was to the effect that the four elements—earth, fire, air, water; pleasure, pain, and the soul—these seven things were eternally existent and unchangeable in their very nature; that there is no volitional activity of consciousness in them. His doctrine is, therefore, one of non-action (akiriya-vāda). When one, with a sharp sword, cleaves a head in twain, no one is thereby deprived of life, a sword has merely penetrated into the interval between seven elementary substances.² In other words, there is no such act as killing, or hearing, or knowing, etc.; no conceptions of, or distinction between, good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, etc.³ - [Previous: v2.c27.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.31) - [Next: v2.c27.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.33) - [Up: v2.c27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.32) · Pramāṇa