Vetullavāda untranslated

Vetullavāda. A heretical doctrine which was introduced into Ceylon by Vohārikatissa, but was suppressed by his minister Kapila (Mhv.xxxvi.41; Dpv.xxii.40). It appeared again later, and though officially disapproved, it does seem to have pushed its way among the monks of Ceylon, chiefly the Dhammarucikas (q.v.), e.g., in the reigns of Goṭhābhaya (Mhv.xxxvi.111), Mahā Sena, (xxxvii.1ff.), and Aggabodhi I. (Cv.xlii.35).

Vetullavāda is generally identified with the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism. See Mhv.Trs. 259, n.2; also Hocart, Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon, i.1922, p.15ff.

The Vetullapiṭaka, the canon of the Vetullavādins, is condemned as abuddhavacana, e.g., SN­a.ii.150; cf. Vin-a.iv.742, where it is called Vedaḷhapiṭaka.