A village near the Cálikapabbata, where the Buddha spent the vassas of the thirteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth years after the Enlightenment (BuA.3).
His attendant on one of these visits was Meghiya. Close to Cáliká was the village of Jantu where Meghiya went for alms. In the neighbourhood was the river Kimikálá, on whose banks was a mango grove (A.iv.354; Ud.iv.1; DhA.i.287f).
Outside the city gate and all around the city was a bog (cala-panka), owing to which the city gave the impression of moving, hence the name (UdA.217; AA.ii.793). v.l. Jáliká.