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Sambalaka-See Semulapura. sâmbapura-Multan on the river Chandrabhaga (Chinab) (Bhavishya P., Brahma Parva, pt., I, ch. 140, v. 3; and Arch. S. Rep., v, pp. 114 ff.). It was founded by Sâmba, son of Krishna.
Sambhalagrama-A village near Moradabad in the district of Rohilkhand, eighty miles to the east of Delhi, where Vishnu would incarnate as Kalki, the ninth Avatara (Bhagavata P., XII, ch. 2, v. 18; Kalki P., ch. 2; and Archavatara-sthala-vaibhava-darpanam). It is the Sambalaka of Ptolemy (McCrindle's Ptolemy, p. 133). According to Col. Yule, Sambhal is Northern Rohilkhand (Ind. Ant., III, p. 115).
Sambheda-A place of pilgrimage at the mouth of the river Sindhu or Indus (Amarakosha, Pâtâla-varga).
Sambaka-abrama-Ramtek, north of Nagpur in the Central Provinces, where Sambúka, a Sûdra, performed asceticism, for which reason he was killed by Ramachandra. Hence it may be identified with the Saibal-giri, a mountain mentioned in the Ramayana (Uttara, ch. 75). At the time of Kalidasa, the author of the Meghadûta, it was known by the name of Ramagiri (Meghadûta, Pt. I, v. 1). See Balbala-giri and Ramagirl. Samet-Sikhara-The Parasnath hill in the district of Hazaribagh in the Behar province, two miles from the Isri station in the Grand Chord Line of the E. I. Railway, the holiness of which is held in great estimation by the Jainas. It is the eastern country of Jaina worship as Mount Abu is the western one. Pârasvanâtha, the twenty-third Tirthankara of the Jainas, died here at the age of one hundred years. Parasvanâtha was the son of Aévasena, king of Benares, by his Queen Bâma. He was born 250 years before Mahavira at Bhelupurâ in Benares. His followers were called the Svetambaras as the followers of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and last Tirthaikara, were called Digambaras (Prof. Jacobi's Kalpa-sutra in SBE., Vol. XXII, p. 271). The hill was the scene of nirvana of no less than nineteen of the twenty-four Tirthapkaras. Same as Samida-giri and Malla-parvata. For the names of the 24 Tirthankaras of the Jainas, see Sravasti. The five holy places of the Jainas are Satruñjaya, Girnar, Abu, Astâpada (see Prabhasa) and Sametasikhara, but the Indian Antiquary (Vol. II, 1872, p. 354) has Chandragiri in the Himalaya instead of Ast&pada
Samida-girl-Same as Samet-Sikhara. Perhaps Samidagiri or Sammidagiri is a variation
of Samadhi-giri (or Sikhara) as 19 Tirthankaras obtained Nirvana on this hill. Samugad-Fatehabad, nineteen miles east of Agra (Bernier's Travels, p. 43), where
Aurangzeb defeated Dara. Samugad is a corruption of Samanagara. Sadehi-Same as sânti.
Sandhya-The river in Sindh in Malwa, a tributary of the Yamuna (R. K. Roy's Mbh., Sabha, ch. 9, p. 282 n.).
Sandilya-asrama-1. Chitai-mandarpur in the district of Faizabad in Oudh was the hermitage of Rishi Sandilya, the celebrated author of the Sandilya-sutras. 2. Sarada (soo Sarada).
Sangala (of the Greeks)-Same as Šakala (Cunningham's Anc. Geo., p. 180). Dr. Bhandarkar (Ind. Ant., I, 22) and McCrindle (Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, p. 348), however, identify it with Saukala of Panini (Sutra, IV, 2, 75) and place the country between the Hydraotes and Hypasis, probably in the district of Amritsar and towards the hill. Mr. V. A. Smith is also of opinion that the identification of Saigala with Sakala is erroneous; he supposes Saigala was in the Gurudaspur district (Early History of India, p. 65 note).
