Mekhala untranslated

Mekhala. The city of birth of Sumana Buddha and the scene of his first sermon to Saraṇa and Bhāvitatta (Bv.v.21; Bv­a.125f). It was there that Maṅgala Buddha converted his chief disciples, Sudeva and Dhammasena (Bv­a.120). Revata Buddha once preached there to an assembly of one thousand crores of people (Bv­a.134), while later, King Uggata built, for Sobhita Buddha, the Dhammagaṇārāma in the same city (Bv­a.139).