Śṛṅgī (Mountain)

Śṛṅgī, “the peaked one”

Śṛṅgī is a varsha mountain north of Meru. Sūta tells the munis in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa that it stands with Nīla and Śveta to the north of Meru, and that it extends eighty thousand yojanas. The Brahma Purāṇa also names it among the three varsha mountains north of Meru.

North of Meru

Sūta tells the munis in the Madhyama Parva that in the middle of Jambūdvīpa stands Mahāmeru, of the lustre of gold, eighty-four thousand yojanas high. South of Meru are the mountains Himavān, Himakūṭa and Nishadha; north of it are the varsha mountains Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgī. The two in the middle, Nishadha and Nīla, are of one lakh yojanas; the next are ten thousand yojanas less each, so that Hemakūṭa and Śveta extend ninety thousand yojanas, and Himavān and Śṛṅgī eighty thousand. All of them are printed as two thousand yojanas long and as much wide.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 1, Chapter 4

Per Brahma Purāṇa, the teller tells the munis, in his account of the shape of the world, that south of Meru are the varsha mountains Himavān, Hemakūṭa and Nishadha, and north of it Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgī. The two in the middle measure a lakh (100,000) yojanas and the others ninety thousand yojanas; they are two thousand yojanas high and as many wide. North of Meru lies the varsha Ramyaka, made of gold, and the Uttara Kuru lands are there.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 18

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 1, Chapter 4
• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 18