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Samudra-Manthan

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In Hindu mythology, Mandara Mountain and Mount Meru are both mountains that are considered to be the axis of the world. Mandara Mountain is a spur of Mount Meru, and the two mountains are sometimes referred to interchangeably.

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 Dinesh
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The most fundamental change in the passage from Vedic to later Indian cosmology, shared by Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina traditions, is the addition of a golden mountain which rises from the center of the earth to the zenith. On the top of the mountain in the city of Brahma or India, and directly above it is the pole star. The slopes of the mountain in the different directions have different colours. Willibald Kirfel connects this central mountain with the astronomical conceptions associated with the pole star. Since the pole-star- related cosmological ideas seem to be much more ancient than has been thought, the central mountain and its name, Meru attested in all three traditions could also go back to the Indus civilization. The Etymology of Meru has remained unclear, I propose deriving it from Proto-Dravidian me / melu, basically “what is over or above” hence also “the upper part of anything, high place, top” ~ Page 203
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The Roots of Hinduism
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