Guttasāla untranslated

Guttasāla, Guttasālaka. A village and a district in Rohaṇa. Duṭṭhagāmaṇī lived there before being crowned at Mahā Gāma (Mhv.xxiv.17). Guttasāla was thirty to thirty-five miles to the north of Mahā Gāma, where the high road crossed the Māṇikagaṅga, and lay on the main route which spread from Mahā Gāma to Mutiyaṅgaṇa, and from there along the Mahā Vālukagaṅgā to Pulatthipura; hence its strategic importance. It was the centre of several campaigns at different periods. (e.g., of Mahinda, Cv.li.109, 117; Vijayabāhu I., Cv.lxviii.34; Jayabāhu I., Cv.lxi.12; Parakkamabāhu I., Cv.lxxiv.165f.; lxxv.15. See Cv.Trs.i.158, n.4).

The Atthasālinī records the story of a nun of Guttasāla (Dhs­a.398f); she was an Arahant, and when the village was destroyed by bandits she left it with a young nun carrying her baggage. At the village gate of Nakulanagara she met Mahā Nāga of Kāḷavallimaṇḍapa, who offered her a meal in his own bowl, as she had none of her own. She ate the meal, washed the bowl and returned it, telling him that from the next day he would get alms without exertion; and so he did.