Bhaggā untranslated

Bhaggā, Bhaggas. The name of a tribe and a country, the capital of which was Suṁsumāragiri (q.v.). The Buddha went there several times in the course of his wanderings (e.g., AN.ii.61, AN.iv.85, etc.; Vin.ii.127; iv. 115, 198) and three rules for the monks were laid down there (Vin.v.145).

Bodhirājakumāra (q.v. 1), son of Udena of Kosambi, lived there, apparently as his father’s viceroy, in which case the Bhaggā were subject to Kosambī. The CHI. (i.175) says that the Bhaggā were members of the Vajjī confederacy. The Bhagga country lay between Vesālī and Sāvatthī.

It was while sojourning in the Bhagga country that Moggallāna was attacked by Māra entering into his stomach (MN.i.332), and it was there that he preached the Anumānasutta (MN.i.95). Sirimaṇḍa and the parents of Nakula were inhabitants of the Bhagga country, and Sigālapitā (Thag­a.i.70) went there in order to meditate; there he became an Arahant.

In the Apadāna (Ap.ii.359) the Bhaggā are mentioned with the Kārusā.