Gaya, chief town of a district of the same name in Bengal, on the Phalgu, 57 m. S. of Patna; it is a great centre of pilgrimage for Hindus, and has associations with Buddha; 100,000 pilgrims visit it annually.
Population (circa 1900) given as 80,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gay, John * Gay-Lussac, Louis Joseph