Uttarapañcāla untranslated

Uttarapañcāla. A city. When Apacara (Upacara), king of Ceti, was swallowed up by the fires of Avīci, because of his falsehood, his five sons came to the Brahmin Kapila and sought his protection. He advised them to build new cities. The city built by the fourth son was called Uttarapañcāla. It was founded in the north of Ceti, on the spot where the prince saw a wheel-frame (cakkapañjara) entirely made of jewels (Ja.iii.461).

According to the scholiast to the Kāmanītajātaka (Ja 228, Ja.ii.214), however, and also according to the Kumbhakārajātaka (Ja 408, Ja.iii.379ff), Pañcāla or Uttarapañcāla is the name of a country (raṭṭha) whose capital was Kampilla, while in the Brahmadattajātaka (Ja 323) (iii.79) also in the scholiast of the Cittasambhūtajātaka (Ja 498) (iv.396), Uttarapañcāla is given as the name of the city and Kampilla as that of the country and we are told that a king Pañcāla reigned there.

Pañcāla was also the name of the king of Uttarapañcāla in the Sattigumbajātaka (Ja 503) (iv.430), the Jayaddisajātaka (Ja 513) (v.21), and the Gaṇḍatindujātaka (Ja 520) (v.98). In all these Uttarapañcāla is spoken of as a city in Kampilla. In the Mahā Ummaggajātaka (Ja 546) (vi.391ff), Cūḷanī Brahmadatta is the king of Uttarapañcāla.

In the Somanassajātaka (Ja 505, Ja.iv.444), mention is made of a city named Uttarapañcāla in the Kuru country, with Reṇu as its king. Whether the reference is to a different city it is not possible to say. See also Pañcāla.