Mount Meru
place · 2 works · 10 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Meru · Mount Sumeru · excellent Mount Meru · great mountain Meru · snowy Mount Meru · snowy Mount Sumeru · the divine, excellent Mount Meru · the snowy Mount Sumeru
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Cosmic mountain used as a simile for Rāma's radiance.
Having taken that best of seats, Rāghava illumined it by his own radiance, as the pure sun at its rising illumines Mount Meru.
"Vaidehī has truly accomplished her life's purpose — like a shadow she follows her husband, she who is devoted to dharma forsakes him not, as the sun's radiance does not forsake Mount Meru.
"Seek this brother of mine as your husband, O wide-eyed one, O fine-hipped one — without a rival co-wife, like the sun's radiance on Mount Meru.
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
The great mythic mountain where Kuñjarakarṇa performs his ascetic practices, described extensively for its beauty.
"How fortunate, Kuñjarakarṇa, you who practice austerities on the snowy Mount Meru.
Moreover, the peaks of Mount Sumeru were filled with ascetic sages along the ridges.
Now the story of Kuñjarakarṇa, who performed austerities on the excellent Mount Meru.