The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.84

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Gurupada-giri—Gurpa hill in the district of Gaya, about 100 miles from Bodh-Gaya, where Mahakasyapa attained Nirvana (Legge's Fa Hian, ch. xxxiii). It is also called Kukkutapada-giri [see An account of the Gurpa Hill in JASB. (1906), p. 77]. By " Maha-Kasyapa " is meant the celebrated disciple of Buddha who presided over the first Buddhist synod after Buddha's death, but Kasyapa Buddha who preceded Sakyasimha (Legge's Fa Hian, ch. xxxiii). But see Kukkutapada-giri. This hill is called Gurupadaka hill in the Divyavadanamala (Dr. R. Mitra's Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, p. 308 ; Divyavadana, Cowell's ed., p. 61) where Maitreya, the future Buddha, would preach the religion.