Trikūṭa (Laṅkā)
Trikūṭa · tri-kūṭa, “the three-peaked”
Trikūṭa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Trikūṭa.
Trikūṭa is the mountain that was the fort of Rāvaṇa, above his capital Laṅkā. In the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, Bhagavān Vishṇu, in the form of a brāhmaṇa, names it in his teaching on the Māyā of Vishṇu.
Rāvaṇa’s fort
Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira the account of Nārada and the Māyā of Vishṇu. When King Tāladhvaja and his queen wept for their sons, Bhagavān Vishṇu came in the form of a brāhmaṇa and taught them that hundreds of cakravartins and thousands of Indras have been destroyed by this Māyā. He gave Rāvaṇa as the example: “He whose fort was the Trikūṭa mountain, whose moat was the ocean, whose capital was such a Laṅkā, whose warriors were rākshasas, for whom Śukrācārya, knower of all the śāstras and Vedas, gave counsel, who had won even the wealth of Kubera: even such a Rāvaṇa perished by daiva.”
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 3
Per Brahma Purāṇa
In the Gautamī Māhātmya, Brahmā tells Nārada of the tīrtha Devāgama. When the devas and the asuras were at war, the daityas, dānavas and rākshasas went to fight in the southern quarter. The excellent mountain Trikūṭa formerly belonged to the rākshasas, and through its forests they all went to the southern ocean and gathered on the Malaya mountain, which also belonged to the enemies of the devas. The devas gathered on the banks of the Gautamī, worshipped Hari and Hara, and won the victory, and the place where they came is Devāgama.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 90
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 3
- Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 90