Kukkutagiri.-A place in Ceylon. Buddhaghosa says (SA.iii.50) that it was so called because it was there that Saddhātissa’s attendant, Tissa (see Tissa 43), refused to kill some pheasants and set them free at the risk of losing his own life.
 

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from