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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.568

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c16.568

- **Language:** English

### [v1.c16.568](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.568)

\*\*Cittakuṭa.\*\*—A mountain in Himavā, one of the five ranges round Anotatta. It is composed of all kinds of precious metals.¹ It is famed as the abode of golden swans living in a golden cave (Kañcanaguhā) on the top of the mountain, sometimes as many as ninety thousand in number.² There also the Dhataraṭṭha swans lived.³

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