Mountain
Meru
- Location
- Disputed Unidentified. Tradition points to Mount Kailash in Tibet; in the text Meru is the axis of the world, beyond the Himalaya and a sea of sand
- Note
- The last place the Pandavas see on their walk out of the world (17.2).
In the story
- 49The great departureParikshit is crowned; the five brothers and Draupadi walk out of the world and fall one by one on the way to Meru
- 50Heaven, and the sight of hellYudhishthira finds Duryodhana in heaven and his brothers in hell, chooses hell, and the illusion breaks
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