A township (nigama) in Kosala. The Buddha stayed there at the Bhaddārāma.¹⁹ The town was the residence of the banker Ugga, and was once a stronghold of the Nigaṇṭhā; after the conversion of Ugga’s family, through Cūḷa Subhaddā’s intervention, the people became faithful followers of the Buddha and for some time Anuruddha lived there, at the Buddha’s special bidding, to teach the new converts.²⁰ Probably the Uggārāma, mentioned in the story of Aṅganika-Bhāradvāja,²¹ was also in Ugga, in which case it was near the village of Kuṇḍiya of the Kuru country.

Footnotes

¹⁰ AA.i.213-4. ¹¹ A.iv.208-12. ¹² S.iv.109 f. ¹³ A.iii.49-51. ¹⁴ AA.ii.602.

¹⁵ A.iv.451. ¹⁶ AA.i.213.

¹⁷ Thag.v.80; ThagA.i.174-5. ¹⁸ Ap.i.164-5.

¹⁹ ThagA.i.74. ²⁰ DhA.iii.465-471; according to ThagA.i.65 Mahāsubhaddā also lived in Ugga, in a family of unbelievers.

²¹ ThagA.i.339; Brethren, 157, n.4.

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