kapota

Updated: May 13, 2025

But apparently he did not visit it and this makes it probable that it was not a religious centre but a mountain in the south of which Buddhists in the north wrote with little precision. There is no evidence that Avalokita was first worshipped on this Potalaka, though he is often associated with mountains such as Kapota in Magadha and Valavatî in Katâha.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2