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Markandeyapurana 54.24

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 54.24

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Sanskrit

54.24

kailāso himavāṃścaiva dakṣiṇena mahācalau /
pūrvapaścāyatāvetāvarṇavāntarvyavasthitau //

Moreover below it are the subjacent hills[14] with a height of ten thousand yojanas. On the east and other sides consecutively are the mountains Mandara, Gandhamādana, and Vipula, and Supārśva[15]; they are decorated with trees as standards. The kadam tree[16] is the standard on Mandara, the jambu tree[17] on Gandhamādana, and the aśvattha tree[18] on Vipula, and the great banyan[19] on Supārśva. These mountains are eleven hundred yojanas in extent. Jaṭhara and Devakūṭa are two mountains on the east side; they stretch up to Nila and Niṣadha without any space intervening between them. Niṣadha[20] and Pāripātra are on the west side of Meru; these two mountains, like the two former, extend to Nila and Niṣadha. Kailāsa and Himavat are two great mountains on the south; they stretch east and west; they extend into the ocean. Śṛṅgāvat and Jārudhi, moreover, are two mountains on the north; they, like the two on the south, extend into the ocean.[21] These eight are called the boundary mountains, O brāhman. Himavat, Hemakūṭa and the other mountains comp rise, one with another, nine thousand yojanas, eastward, westward, southward and northward. Similarly Meru stretches to the four quarters in the middle in Ilāvṛta.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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