1. Kokálika (Kokáliya) Sutta (See Kokálika 2).-The story of Kokálika - according to Buddhaghosa (SnA.ii.473), to be distinguished as Cúla Kokálika. It contains the verses preached by the Buddha to Kokálika. The verses describe the evil of back-biting and the terrors that await the back-biter after death. The Sutta Nipáta contains twenty-two verses (657-78). The Sutta Nipáta Commentary says (p.477f) that the last two stanzas are not explained in the Mahá Atthakathá, 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 Turitavatthugáthá, and he says that they were uttered by Moggallána as Kokálika lay dying, by way of admonition, and that, according to others, Mahá Brahma was the speaker. The first three stanzas (658-60) are, in the Samyutta Nikáya (i.149), attributed to Tudu. In the Anguttara Nikáya (v.171-4; the verses are also found in A.ii.3 and in S.i.149ff; Netti.132), also, Tudu speaks them; but according to this version the Buddha repeats them.
2. Kokálika Sutta.-Gives the story of Kokálika (2) speaking ill of Sáriputta and Moggallána before the Buddha, of Kokálika's illness and death, of his admonition by Tudu, and of the announcement of his death and subsequent birth in the Paduma-niraya by Sahampatí to the Buddha. A monk questions the Buddha on the duration of suffering in the Paduma-niraya, and the Buddha proceeds to instruct him by means of various illustrations. The sutta ends with the repetition by the Buddha of Tudu's verses. A.v.171-4; also S.i.149ff.
3. Kokálika Sutta.-Subrahmá visits the Buddha at Sávatthi and utters verses in reference to Kokálika. The man who tries to limit the illimitable becomes confused. S.i.148.