Kukkutarama

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Kukkutarama was a Buddhist monastery in Pataliputra{{cite book|author=Bibhuti Baruah|title=Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1PZAMD13SMC&pg=PA40|year=2000|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-152-5|pages=40–41}} in eastern India, which is famous as the location of various "Discourses at the Kukkutarama Monastery", and for the eponymous "Kukkutarama sutra". Kukkutarama was also a Buddhist in Kosambi.

Charles Allen writes that Ashoka built this Monastery and that the Amalaka stupa outside the monastery was built to commemorate his death.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} Xuanzang and Faxian mentioned the monastery as well.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

According to an Ashokavadana legend, the Shunga king Pushyamitra tried to destroy the monastery, but it was saved by a miracle.{{sfn|Lahiri|1974|p=}}

Mahadeva is said to have received his ordination at Kukkutarama (Pataliputta), before becoming the head of the sangha.