Śveta (Mountain)
Śveta, “the white one”
Śveta has other meanings too: see all meanings of Śveta. Śubhra has other meanings too: see all meanings of Śubhra.
Śveta is a mountain north of Meru. It is one of the six varsha-parvatas and one of the seven kula-parvatas of Jambūdvīpa; its extent is given as ninety thousand yojanas. The Brahma Purāṇa also names it among the three varsha mountains north of Meru, with Nīla and Śṛṅgī.
Among the varsha-parvatas
Sumantu Muni tells King Śatānīka that the six varsha-parvatas are Himavat, Hemakūṭa, Nishadha, Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgavat, and that the Mahārajata parvata, the great silver mountain, stands in their middle.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 126
Its place and measure
Śrī Sūta tells the munis that south of Meru are the mountains Himavān, Himakūṭa and Nishadha, and that north of it are the varsha mountains Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgī. Nishadha and Nīla, in the middle, are of one lakh yojanas, and the next ones are ten thousand yojanas less each. A gloss printed in the text adds that Hemakūṭa and Śveta extend ninety thousand yojanas.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 1, Chapter 4
Among the kula-parvatas
The seven kula-parvatas of Jambūdvīpa are Himavān, Hemakūṭa, Nishadha, Meru, Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgavān.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 2
Per Brahma Purāṇa
The teller describes the bhuvana-kośa, the shape of the world, to the munis who ask to hear the form of the earth’s sphere. In the middle of Jambūdvīpa stands the golden mountain Meru. South of Meru are the varsha mountains Himavān, Hemakūṭa and Nishadha; north of it are Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgī. The two in the middle measure a lakh yojanas and the others ninety thousand yojanas, and they are two thousand yojanas high and as many wide. South of Meru are the varshas Bhārata, Kimpurusha and Hari; to the north is Ramyaka, made of gold, and there are the Uttara Kuru lands. Each varsha is nine thousand yojanas wide, and Ilāvṛta, with Meru in it, lies in their midst. In each of the eight varshas beginning with Kimpurusha there are seven kula-parvatas, and from them hundreds of rivers arise.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 18
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 126; Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 1, Chapter 4; Uttara Parva, Chapter 2
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 18