<b> <c c="#a00149">Gijjhakūṭa</c> </b> Vulture’s Peak<br>One of the five hills encircling Rājagaha. It was evidently a favourite resort of those who followed the religious life.<br>The Buddha seems to have been attracted by its solitude, and is mentioned as having visited it on several occasions, sometimes even in the dark, in drizzling rain, while Māra made unsuccessful attempts to frighten him. <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.i.109</c> <br>It was on the slopes of Gijjhakūṭa, where the Buddha was wandering about, that Devadatta hurled at him a mighty stone to kill him, but only a splinter injured his foot. <c c="#3b6bd3">Vin.ii.193</c> <br>Among those who visited the Buddha on Gijjhakūṭa are mentioned: Sahampati, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.i.153</c> the youth Māgha, <c c="#3b6bd3">Snp.p.86</c> the Yakkha Inda, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.i.206</c> Sakka, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.i.233</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.iv.102</c> the Paribbājaka Sajjha, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iv.371</c> the Kassapagotta monk, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.i.237</c> Pañcasikha, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.iv.103</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.ii.220</c> Sutavā, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iv.369</c> the four kings of the Cātummahārājika world and their followers, <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.iii.195</c> Abhayarājakumāra, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.v.126</c> Upaka Maṇḍikāputta, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.ii.181</c> Dhammika,, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iii.368</c> and Vassakāra. <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iv.18</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.ii.72</c> <br>Several well-known suttas were preached on Gijjhakūṭa—e.g., the Māgha, Dhammika and Chaḷabhijāti Suttas, the discourse on the seven Aparihānīyadhammā, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iv.21f.</c> the Mahāsāropama and Āṭānāṭiya Suttas. <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.155</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.185</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.190</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.241</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.iii.121</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.ii.73</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iii.21</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iv.160</c> <br>Monks arriving late at Rājagaha would ask Dabbamallaputta-Tissa to find accommodation for them in Gijjhakūṭa, in order to test his capabilities. <c c="#3b6bd3">Vin.ii.76</c> <br>Mention is made of several eminent monks who stayed at Gijjhakūṭa from time to time, such as Sāriputta, <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.iii.263</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iii.300</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.155</c> Ānanda, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iii.383</c> Mahā Kassapa, Anuruddha, Puṇṇa Mantāniputta, Upāli and Devadatta, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.155</c> Cunda, and Channa. <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.iv.55</c> <br>Channa fell ill there, and ultimately committed suicide. Another monk is mentioned as having thrown himself down from Gijjhakūṭa because he was discontented with his life. <c c="#3b6bd3">Vin.iii.82</c> <br> Moggallāna and Lakkhaṇa are reported to have stayed there, and to have seen many inhabitants of Rājagaha reborn in Gijjhakūṭa as petas. <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.254</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">Vin.iii.104</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iv.75</c> <br>The Mettiya-bhummajakas <c c="#3b6bd3">Vin.iii.167</c> and the Chabbaggiyas <c c="#3b6bd3">Vin.iii.82</c> were also in the habit of visiting the hill.<br>Several places are mentioned as having been visited by the Buddha during his sojourns on Gijjhakūṭa, and it may be inferred from accounts given of these visits that these places were within easy reach of the hill. Such, for example, are: the Paṭibhānakūṭa, <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.v.448</c> the Sītavana, where the Buddha went to visit Soṇa, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.iii.374</c> the river Sappinī, on the banks of which lived various Paribbājakas, including Sarabha, <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.i.185</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.ii.29</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.ii.176</c> and the Paribbājakārāma of Udumbarika the residence of Nigrodha, near the Moranivāpa on the bank of the lake Sumāgadhā. <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.iii.39</c> <br>The Sūkara-khatalena was on the slope of Gijjhakūṭa, and there the Buddha was once visited by Dīghanakha. <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.v.233</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.i.497</c> <br> <br>Location: <iref href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/25.001967,85.446707">25.001967,85.446707</iref> (Precision: 1, Type: hill)<br> </deftext>
(masc, masc, comp) name of a mountain peak around Rājagaha Vulture's peak near Rajagaha [lit.] vulture's peak Construction: gijjha + kūṭa