Śuktimān (mountain)

Śuktimān · śukti-mān, “rich in pearl-shells”

Śuktimān (Śuktimant) is one of the seven kula-parvatas, the chief mountain ranges of Bhārata-varsha. The Brahma Purāṇa names it where the teller of the Purāṇa describes Jambūdvīpa to the munis at their request, and says that the rivers Ṛshikulyā and Kumārī, with others, rise at its foot.

In Bhārata-varsha

North of the ocean and south of the Himālaya lies Bhārata-varsha, whose people are called Bhāratī. It is nine thousand yojanas wide and is called the karma-bhūmi, the land of action: only from here do beings attain svarga and moksha, and only here is the performance of karma enjoined. In it stand the seven kula-parvatas: Mahendra, Malaya, Sahya, Śuktimān, Ṛksha, Vindhya and Pāriyātra.

The rivers of Śuktimān

Each of the great mountains gives rise to rivers. The Ṛshikulyā, the Kumārī and others are born at the foot of the Śuktimān mountain, and their tributaries are in thousands. The peoples of the land, the Kurus and Pāñcālas, the peoples of the east, the south and the west, drink the waters of these rivers.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 19

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 19