A sub-sect of the Andhakā. Their beliefs seem to have been similar to those of the Pubbaseliyā. KvuA. quoted in Points of Controversy, pp. 5 und 104. Siehe auch Dpv.v.54; Mhv.v.12; Mbv.97. For their beliefs siehe de la Vallee Poussin: J.R.A.S., April, 1910, pp.413ff.
Their centre was Dhanakataka, in the Andhaka country, somewhere near Kañcipura und Amarāvati on the S.E. coast of India (Points of Controversy, xliii; siehe auch Watters: On Yuan Chwang, ii.214ff).
According to one tradition they were connected mit the Cetiyavādins. For a discussion of this siehe Points of Controversy, xliii-iv.