Editing Sialkot (section)

====Founding====
{{Main|Sagala}}
Sialkot was the likely capital of the [[Madra Kingdom]] [[Sagala]], Sakala ({{langx|sa|साकला}}), or Sangala ({{langx|grc|Σάγγαλα}}) mentioned in the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', a Sanskrit epic of ancient India, as occupying a similar area as Greek accounts of Sagala.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Horace Hayman |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_w3kWAAAAYAAJ |title=Ariana Antiqua: A Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins of Afghanistan |last2=Masson |first2=Charles |date=1841 |publisher=East India Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_w3kWAAAAYAAJ/page/n228 197] |language=en |quote=sangala rebuilt.}}</ref><ref name="Kumar2000">{{cite book |last1=Kumar |first1=Rakesh |title=Ancient India and World |date=2000 |publisher=Classical Publishing Company |page=68 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Rapson1960">{{cite book |last1=Rapson |first1=Edward James |title=Ancient India: From the Earliest Times to the First Century A. D. |date=1960 |publisher=Susil Gupta |page=88 |language=English |quote=Sakala, the modern Sialkot in the Lahore Division of the Punjab, was the capital of the Madras who are known in the later Vedic period (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad).}}</ref><ref name="Skyhorse Publishing">{{cite book |last1=McEvilley |first1=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbjelOMYyN8C&q=sagala+sialkot&pg=PT568 |title=The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies |date=2012 |publisher=Skyhorse Publishing |isbn=9781581159332 |accessdate=2 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Getzel M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3aabFPHxRPUC&q=sagala+location&pg=PA324 |title=The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India |date=2013-06-02 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520953567 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Hyun Jin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-w0DwAAQBAJ&q=sagala+sialkot+-kenya&pg=PA260 |title=Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China |last2=Vervaet |first2=Frederik Juliaan |last3=Adali |first3=Selim Ferruh |date=2017-10-05 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107190412 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Congress |first=Indian History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzdWAAAAYAAJ&q=sagala+sialkot+-kenya |title=Proceedings, Indian History Congress |date=2007 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="dhillon">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXtVDgAAQBAJ&q=sialkot+garrison&pg=PT102|title=Janamsakhis: Ageless Stories, Timeless Values|last1=Dhillon|first1=Harish|date=2015|publisher=Hay House, Inc|isbn=9789384544843|access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref> The city may have been inhabited by the ''[[Saka]]'', or [[Scythians]], from [[Central Asia]] who had migrated into the Subcontinent.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Society |first=Panjab University Arabic and Persian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_lWAAAAMAAJ&q=saka |title=Journal |date=1964 |language=en}}</ref> The region was noted in the ''Mahabharata'' for the  "loose and Bacchanalian" women who lived in the woods there.<ref name=":17">{{Cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Horace Hayman |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_w3kWAAAAYAAJ |title=Ariana Antiqua: A Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins of Afghanistan |last2=Masson |first2=Charles |date=1841 |publisher=East India Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_w3kWAAAAYAAJ/page/n227 196] |quote=sangala rebuilt.}}</ref> The city was said to have been located in the ''Sakaladvipa'' region between the [[Chenab River|Chenab]] and [[Ravi River|Ravi]] rivers, now known as the [[Rechna Doab|''Rechna'' Doab]].


[[Raja Sálbán]] is said to have lived here in the first century CE, and is said to have founded the city of Sialkot and the [[Sialkot Fort]].{{Efn|Alternatively spelt as 'Raja Sálwan'.|group=note}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=E.Y |first=Mbogoni, Lawrence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szgMAwAAQBAJ&dq=sialkot+fort+salban&pg=PA172 |title=Human Sacrifice and the Supernatural in African History |date=2013-11-03 |publisher=Mkuki na Nyota Publishers |isbn=978-9987-08-242-1 |pages=172 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sekhon |first=Iqbal S. |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Punjabis/bU0wAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv |title=The Punjabis: The People, Their History, Culture and Enterprise |publisher=Cosmo Publications |year=2000 |isbn=978-81-7755-053-5 |location=New Delhi |page=336 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bedī |first=Sohindara Siṅgha Waṇajārā |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Folklore_of_the_Punjab/jV8tAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv |title=Folklore of the Punjab |date= |publisher=National Book Trust, India |year=1971 |location=New Delhi |page=120 |language=en}}</ref>