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CunVha' thus called^ Caila'sa also. The first peak, 

 it is true, is not known under that name ; but it is 

 described as such, and this appears to be its real 

 name. Upon it Brahma' resides, and his seat is 

 called Brahma-picri, or the town of Brahma': it is 

 also Mana-puri, the town of Mana, or of his heart, 

 or the delight of his heart, near the famous lake of 

 Mana or Manasa, the waters of which, proceeding 

 from heaven, are the delight of his heart likewise. 

 They are otherwise said to proceed from his heart, 

 and indeed every thing there is from his heart. The 

 obvious meaning of Mana is mind, (mens,) but it is 

 always rendered here heart, because the inind pro- 

 ceeds from the heart, according to the Himhts, who 

 even are able to trace its track thiough the body to 

 the head. The radical name of l^ai-Cunfha is 

 CunYha, an ideot. The nam.e of Vishnu's mother, 

 in one of his incarnations, during the fifth Manwan- 

 tara, was Cun't'ha or the ideot ; and as she was 

 VQ.xy much so, she was called V[ CunVha Vishnu, 

 since that time, is surnamed Vai Cunt'ha : and 

 after him, the peak on which he resides is deno- 

 minated likewise. In Cailasopi, api signifies also. 

 This Tr'i-cutadrl, or mountain with three summits, 

 is declared to be the lord of mountains ; and of course 

 the other TrUcoryphean hills, for there are many, are 

 considered as inferior to it. The next in rank is the 

 three-peak-land m the N. W. emphatically called the 

 White island, the island of the Moon, a celestial 

 ^arth or region, a terrestrial heaven or paradise. 



The next to this is the Tri-ciCta mountain in the 

 south-east, including the peninsula of il/fl/<ic«, Suma- 

 tra, and Ceylon. These two Tri-cutadris are declared 

 to correspond to each other, in their respective 

 quarters, and their Teja, Cirriria, or splendor, are the 



