Saccaka untranslated

Saccaka. A Nigaṇṭha who had two interviews with the Buddha, as recorded in the Cūḷa Saccakasutta and Mahā Saccakasutta. He is addressed as Aggivessana, that being his gotta name (the Agniveṣyāyanas).

Buddhaghosa says (MN­a.i.450; cf. Ja.iii.1, where Sivāvatikā is called Avavādakā) that both his parents were Nigaṇṭhas, skilled debaters, who married at the suggestion of the Licchavīs, because they were unable to defeat each other in argument. The Licchavīs provided for their maintenance. Four daughters were born to them: Saccā, Lolā, Paṭācārā and Sivāvatikā. These engaged in a discussion with Sāriputta, and were defeated by him. Having then entered the Saṅgha, they became Arahants. Saccaka was their brother and was the youngest of them. He was a teacher of the Licchavīs and lived at Vesālī.

When Saccaka was defeated by the Buddha as stated in the Cūḷa Saccakasutta, one of the Licchavīs, Dummukha, compared him to a crab in a pool, its claws being smashed one after the other and unable to return to the pool. Saccaka, owned defeat, and begged the Buddha to take a meal at his house. The Buddha agreed, and Saccaka became his follower (MN.i.234f).

It is said (MN­a.i.469f) that, in a later birth, long after the Buddha’s death, Saccaka was born in Ceylon as the Thera Kāḷa Buddharakkhita and attained Arahant-ship. Saccaka, is identified with Senaka of the Mahā Ummaggajātaka (Ja 546). Ja.vi.478.