Sāgara, (1) (16620)

Sāgara, (1)
Entry 16620, Page 589, Col. 1

(sAgara, sAgara)
Sāgara, (1)¦ (see also Upasāgara, and cf. Sāgaranā- garājaparipṛcchā), n. of a nāga king, often mentioned in close association with Anavatapta 2; lives in the ocean, cf. samudramadhyāt sāgaranāgarājabhavanāt SP 261.3: Mvy 3238 = Tib. rgya mtsho, ocean; SP 4.11; 263.3, 14, etc.; LV 204.9; 219.9 (misprinted māgara); 270.6; 435.14; Suv 85.5; 91.19; 158.14; 162.8; Kv 68.5; Laṅk 2.3; 4.8; Mmk 18.12; 452.17, 21; in nearly all these identifiable by association with Anavatapta, or with the ocean; (2) n. of another nāga king, mentioned later in the same list: Mvy 3264; here Tib. dug can, poisonous, which sug- gests sa-gara; this word exists in Skt. as an adj. but seems not recorded as n. of a nāga; Mironov also sāgara; (3) n. of a former Buddha: LV 171.20; (4) nt., a high number, = 10 mahāsamudra: Mmk 343.22. (Skt. Lex. has sāgara, m., as a different high number.)