又云靈鷲山。佛嘗居此。世俗所稱鷲嶺，靈山，皆指此而言。智度論曰耆闍崛山，即鷲頭山，山頂似鷲，王舍城人因而名之。又王舍城南林中多死人，諸鷲常來食之，還集山頭。時人遂名鷲頭山，山最高大，多好林泉，聖人住處。
Gṛdhrakūṭa, Vulture Peak near Rājagṛha, 'the modern Giddore, so called because Piśuna (Māra) once as assumed there the guise of a vulture to interrupt the meditation of Ānanda' (Eitel); more probably because of its shape, or because of the vultures who fed there on the dead; a place frequented by the Buddha; the imaginary scene of the preaching of the Lotus Sūtra, and called 靈鷲山 Spiritual Vulture Peak, as theLotus Sūtrais also known as the 鷲峰偈 Vulture Peakgāthā. The peak is also called 鷲峰; 鷲頭 (鷲頭山); 鷲臺; 鷲嶽; 鷲巖; 靈山; cf. 耆闍崛山.
又名靈鷲山，因此山的山頭似鷲，故名。