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Sumeru Parbat is a 6,350-metre (20,830 ft) high mountain in the Gangotri Glacier region of Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The mountain is encircled by Kedarnath and Kedardome in the north, Kharchakund in the west & Mandani and Yanbuk in the south.
Bhutanese thangka of Mt. Meru and the Buddhist universe (19th cent., Trongsa Dzong, Trongsa, Bhutan).. Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु)—also known as Sumeru, Sineru or Mahāmeru—is a sacred, five-peaked mountain present within Hindu, Jain and Buddhist cosmologies, revered as the centre of all physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes. [1]
Mount Meru (also Sumeru or Sineru or Kangrinboqe/Kailash) is the name of the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology. Etymologically, the proper name of the mountain is Meru (Pāli Meru ), to which is added the approbatory prefix su- , resulting in the meaning "excellent Meru" or "wonderful Meru".
Rama offers his ring to Maruti (Hanuman) to prove that he is Rama's messenger, surrounded by the vanaras of Kishkindha. Kishkindha (Sanskrit: किष्किन्धा, IAST: Kiṣkindhā) is a kingdom of the vanaras in Hinduism.
It is said that when Queen Trishala gave birth to Mahavira, Indra, the head of heavenly beings performed a ritual called abhisheka on Sumeru Parvat, this being the second of five auspicious events (Panch Kalyanakas), said to occur in the life of all Tirthankaras.
It lies between Chaukhamba IV, 6,854 metres (22,487 ft) and Sumeru Parbat, 6,351 metres (20,837 ft). Its nearest higher neighbor Chaukhamba IV lies 5.5 km east. It is located 8.4 km SE of Sumeru Parbat and 6.5 km NE lies Janhukut 6,829 metres (22,405 ft).
Mount Meru, or Sumeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. Mount Meru or Sumeru may also refer to: Mount Meru (Buddhism), the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology; Mount Meru (Tanzania), an active stratovolcano; Mount Meru University, Arusha, Tanzania; Sumeru, 2021 Indian romantic film
Indra, the King of Svarga, was riding on his divine elephant when he came across the sage Durvasa, who offered him a special garland given to him by an apsara. [2] The deity accepted the garland and placed it on the trunk (sometime the tusks or the head of the elephant in some scriptures) of Airavata (his mount) as a testament to his humility.