Indakhīla Sutta.-Like a tuft of cotton-wool or a ball of thistledown, wafted by every wind, are recluses and Brahmins who do not understand, as they really are, the facts of Ill; like an indakhīla, unshakable, unquakable, are those who do so understand. (S.v.443-5).

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