Kailash

alternative Kailasa

1. A mountain of the Transhimalaya in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, considered to be sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Bön.

   Her head is reborn as Shiva on Mount Kailash, and her trunk as Gaura Devi in Rishasau.

   1991, William S. Sax, Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 28

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   Is that some kind of writing? Yeah, it's Sanskrit. It's part of the legend of Sankara. He climbs Mount Kailash where he meets Shiva, the Hindu god.

   1984, 34:10 from the start, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom^(https://archive.org/details/movie-hollywood-720p-sub-indonesia_202209/Indiana+Jones+And+The+Temple+Of+Doom+(1984)+BR/Indiana+Jones+And+The+Temple+Of+Doom.mp4) (Action-Adventure), →OCLC

   We had our reward for our high camp and early start, for the sky was still clear, the view magnificent, with fresh vistas to the north of mountains in Tibet, of Gurla Mandhata, massive, majestic to the northeast, and further to the north, a distant pyramid, Kailash, most holy of all mountains in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

   1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136

   We first went to the Kailash area during my year of dissertation research in India, spending six idyllic months in the Himalayas in the exquisite hill town of Almora on the ancient route of pilgrimage to the mountain.

   1999, Robert Thurman, Tad Wise, Circling the Sacred Mountain: a Spiritual Adventure through the Himalayas, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4

2. A male given name from Sanskrit.