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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
| 南チベット : vol.1 |
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In the Hindu mythology Meru is a fabulous mountain, for on it is situated
Svarga, Indra's heaven with the cities of the gods, and the habitations of celestial
spirits. ¹
This mighty upheaval, the highland of Tibet, the Meru of the Indian cosmo-
graphy, was praised in the following words by the *Mahābhārata*, the great epic poem
of the Hindus, and probably the greatest poem in the world's literature: »There is a
mountain named Meru of blazing appearance, and looking like a huge heap of efful-
gence. The rays of the sun falling on its peaks of golden lustre are dispersed by
them. Abounding with gold and of variegated tints, that mountain is the haunt of
the gods and the Gandharvas. It is immeasurable, and unapproachable by men of
manifold sins. Dreadful beasts of prey inhabit its breast, and it is illuminated with
divine herbs of healing virtue. It standeth kissing the heavens by its height and is
the first of mountains. Ordinary people cannot so much as think of ascending it
. . . Standing high for infinite ages, upon it once all the mighty celestials sat them
down and held a conclave». ²
The same source tells us that Meru is in the Himalaya between Mālyavant and
Gandhamādana. »This gold-mountain is the highest of all mountains. It is round
as a ball, shines like the morning sun, and is like a fire without smoke. It is
84,000 Yojanas high and goes as far down in depth, and it overshadows the worlds
above and below and across . . . It is furnished with heavenly flowers and fruit,
and covered everywhere with bright gold dwellings . . . The top of Meru is
covered with forests that are beautified with flowers and the wide-stretching branches
of Jambu trees, and which resounded with the melodious voices of kinnaries.» ³
Vishnu's dwelling place is on the top of Mount Mandara to the east of Meru
and to the north of the Milk-Sea. On the south of the Nila mountain and
the northern side of Meru are the sacred Northern Kurus, the residence of the
Siddhas. ⁴
In the same ancient poem we read: »From the Himavant mountains which are
the most excellent in the world and which are extolled as divine, holy and loved
by the gods who seek these regions, they using them as pleasure-grounds; from
these mountains of which Meru is the centre you ascend through the air to Svarga.
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