Sāgalikā untranslated

Sāgalikā, Sāgaliyā, Sāgalikas. One of the heterodox sects which branched off from the Theravāda in Ceylon (Mhv.v.13). They formed a part of the Dhammarucikas, and separated from that body three hundred and forty-one years after the establishment of Buddhism in Ceylon. They lived at first in the Dakkhiṇavihāra, but later went to the Jetavanavihāra, built by Mahā Sena. They made certain alterations in the Ubhatovibhaṅga (Mhv­ṭ.175, 176; Cf. Sās.p.24; see also Mhv.xxxvii.32 ff., and Mhv­ṭ.680).

According to the Sinhalese Nikāyasaṅgrahaya (Quoted in Geiger’s Dīpavaṁsa and Mahā Vaṁsa, p.90), the Sāgalikas took their name from their leader, Sāgala Thera, and their separation took place seven hundred and ninety-five years after the Buddha’s death, in the reign of King Goṭhābhaya. Moggallāna I. gave the vihāras of Daḷha and Dāṭhākondañña, on Sīhagiri, to the Dhammarucikas and the Sāgalikas, while he also gave the Rājinī nunnery for the use of the nuns of the Sāgalika sect (Cv.xxxix.41, 43). Aggabodhi II. gave the Veḷuvana vihāra, which he had built, to the Sāgalikas (Cv.xlii.43). Kassapa IV. built for them the Kassapasena vihāra. Cv.lii.17.