Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.271

c8.271

MAKARAGIRI. A mountain near Mahāmeru. Mahāmeru is two thousand yojanas long and six hundred yojanas high and stands in the midst of eight mountains two on each of the four sides. Makaragiri and Triśṛṅga are on the north side. On the east are Jaṭhara and Devakūṭa, on the south are Kailāsa and Karavīra and on the west are Pavamāna and Pāriyātra. (8th Skandha, Devī Bhāgavata).