Gokuḷikā untranslated

Gokuḷikā. A secondary division of the Vajjiputtakā, their immediate parent-body being the Mahā Saṅghikas. Later, from the Gokuḷikas, sprang two other schools – the Paññattivādins and the Bāhulikas (or Bahussutikas) (Dpv.v.40; Mhv.v.4f.; Mbv., p.96). Their most important heresy seems to have been that they considered all saṅkhāras, without qualification, no better than a heap of embers (kukkuḷa) whence the flames have died out as from an inferno of ashes. They based this view on the Buddha’s declaration made in the Ādittapariyāyasutta (“All is on fire, bhikkhus”) (Kv.ii.7, p.208, and Points of Controversy, 127f). This view was probably responsible for their other name of (Kukkuḷikas or Kukkuṭikas) (Rockhill, 186ff). It may be that Kukkuḷika was their earlier name, of which Gokuḷikā was either a corruption or a derivation from the name of one of their teachers. But all Pāli records give only the “Gokuḷika” reading.