Meru
place · 1 work · 11 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Mount Meru · peak of Meru
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A cosmic mountain named as an extreme limit of the search that Sugrīva's monkeys will undertake.
That foremost of leaping ones will restore your beloved to you — even if she has gone to the peak of Meru, or taken refuge at the floor of the netherworld — entering even there and slaying the rākṣasas.
"In the midst of these stands the king Meru, the highest of mountains — the mountain to which a boon was granted of old by the gracious Āditya.
"The Ādityas, Vasus, Rudras, and Maruts — all the celestial beings — come at the western twilight to Meru, the highest of mountains,"