Cūla Gopālaka Sutta

Preached to the monks assembled at Ukkācelā. Those who will listen to and trust in the wrong kind of recluse and brahmin and who do not understand good and evil will come to grief, whereas those who hearken to teachers of the right kind will gain deliverance.

The theme is illustrated by various similes drawn from the picture of a herdsman driving cattle across a ford. M.i.225f.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from