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Naḷa. A Gandhabba chieftain (DN.ii.258) to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need. Ibid.,iii.204.

Nāla, Nālaka, Nālika (Nāḷa, Nāḷaka, Nāḷika). A Brahmin village in Magadha, not far from Rājagaha. It was the township of the Upatissas (hence also called Upatissagāma), and it was there that Sāriputta and other members of his family were born (SN­a.ii.172; Thag­a.i.108; ii.93; Thīg­a.162; Vv-a.149, 156, 158, 164; Mahā Vastu (Mvu.iii. 56) calls it Nālanda).

It was also the birthplace of Mahā Gavaccha (Thag­a.i.57). Sāriputta seems to have continued to reside there from time to time, even after he joined the Saṅgha (see his discussions with Jambukhādaka (SN.iv.251) and with Sāmaṇḍakāni (AN.v.120,121); Dhp­a.iv.164f.), and when his death drew near, he went back to Nālakagāma and, having made his mother a Sotāpanna, died in the room where he was born (SN.v.161; Ja.i.391; v.125; Ud­a.322, etc.)

Nālā 01. A village in Magadha, near the Bodhi-tree at Gayā. It was the birthplace of Upaka (Thīg.294; Thīg­a.225). The Buddhavaṁsa Commentary (p.3) speaks of a Brahmin village Nālā, where the Buddha spent his eleventh rainy season.

Nālā 02. Wife of the Ādipāda Udaya. She was the daughter of his maternal uncle and was under the protection of King Sena I., but Udaya married her during an absence of the king and took her to Pulatthinagara. The king, however, forgave him. Cv.l.9; see also Cv.Trs.i. 138, n.3.