Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2682

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Sineru is often used in similes, its chief characteristic being its unshakeability (*sutthuthapita*).⁴ It is also called Meru or Sumeru,⁵ Hemameru⁶ and Mahāneru.⁷ Each Cakkavāla has its own Sineru,⁸ and a time comes when even Sineru is destroyed.⁹ When the Buddha went to Tāvatiṃsa, he covered the distance there from the earth in three strides—he set his right foot down on the top of Yugandhara and his left on Sineru, the next step brought him to Tāvatiṃsa, the whole distance so covered being sixty-eight hundred thousand leagues.¹⁰