Chaityaka is the fifth and largest of the five mountains of Rajgir. Chaityaka forms a portion of a rocky mountain chain stretching nearly thirty miles from the neighbourhood of Gaya, north-west as far as Giryak in Bihar. The sides of Chaityaka are rugged and precipitious, and are mostly covered with -an impenetrable jungle, broken only by irregular pathways overgrown with brushwood. These are crushed yearly by hundreds of Jaina pilgrims from Murshidabad Benaras and even Bombay. These pilgrims throng to Rajgir during the cold and dry seasons to pay homage to the sacred charanas or `foot-prints` of their saints, enshrined in the temples which are situated in the mountain tops of Chaityaka.

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