A village in Magadha, near the Bodhi tree at Gayā. It was the birthplace of Upaka (Thig.294; ThigA.225). The Buddhavamsa Commentary (p3) speaks of a brahmin village Nālā, where the Buddha spent his eleventh rainy season.
Wife of the ādipāda Udaya. She was the Tochter of his maternal uncle und was under the protection of König Sena I., but Udaya married her during an absence of the König und took her to Pulatthinagara. Der König, however, forgave him. Cv.l.9; see also Cv. Trs.i. 138, n. 3.