Sāgala untranslated

Sāgala, Sāgalā. A city in India, capital of King Milinda (Mil.pp.1, 3, etc.).

In various Jātakas – e.g., the Kāliṅgabodhi (Ja 479, Ja.iv.230) and the Kusa (Ja 531, Ja.v.283), and also in the scholiast of the Mahā Ummagga (Ja 546, Ja.vi.471, 473) – Sāgala is mentioned as the capital of the Madda kings. It was also evidently called Sākala. (e.g., Mahā Bhārata 14, 32; tataḥ Sākalam abhyetvā Mādrānām puṭabhedanam).

Sāgala was the birthplace of Khemā Therī (Thīg­a.127; Ap.ii.546; AN­a.i.187), of Bhaddā Kāpilānī, (Thīg­a.68; Ap.ii.583; AN­a.i.99) and of Queen Anojā (Dhp­a.ii.116).

It is said that when Ariṭṭhigandha kumāra refused to marry any woman unless she resembled a golden image possessed by him, the messengers sent by his parents found a girl in Sāgala who possessed the necessary requirements, but she was delicate, and died on her way from Sāgala to Sāvatthī (Dhp­a.iii.281f.; cp. the story of Anitthigandha, a Pacceka Buddha, given in Snp­a.i.69).

It is perhaps the same city which is mentioned in the Vinaya (Vin.iii.67) as the residence of Daḷhika. Sāgala is identified with the modern Sialkot in the Panjab (Dhamma, Geog. 53).