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Mount Sumeru. The mythological giant mountain at the center of our world-system surrounded by the four continents, where the two lowest classes of gods of the Desire Realm live. It is encircled by chains of lesser mountains, lakes, continents, and oceans and is said to rise 84000 leagues above sea-level [RY]

Sumeru/ Mt Meru [IW]

mount sumeru, mount Meru, axis mundi in traditional Indian cosmology, Mount Meru, reading in lde'u 'phrul [JV]

Mount Meru [RY]

the world mountain [RY]