Gotamaka untranslated

Gotamaka 01. A class of ascetics, enumerated in a list of such classes. (AN.iii.276. Does Devadhammikā in Ap.ii.358 (vs.11) qualify Gotamā?) Rhys Davids thinks they were almost certainly the followers of some other member of the Sākiyan clan, as distinct from the Buddha, and suggests that it might have been Devadatta or possibly a Brahmin of the Gotamagotta (Dial.i.222; but see his article on Buddhist Dhamma in ERE.; see also Brethren, 265, n.3). The Lalitavistara (p.492), however, speaks of the Gautamas in a list of nine such sects; the Gotamakas and the Gautamas are evidently identical, as several of the other classes correspond with the Pāli. According to the Lalitavistara, these sects existed even before the Buddha, for they are represented as meeting and addressing him in the sixth week after the Awakening, on his way to the Ajapāla-tree. We hear no more of them in subsequent history.

Gotamaka 02. A Yakkha. See Gotamakacetiya.

Gotamaka 03. See Kaṇha Gotamaka.