Editing Mount Meru (section)

== In Jainism ==
[[Image:Mount Meru.jpg|thumb|Painting of Mount Meru from [[Jain cosmology]] from the ''Samghayanarayana'']]
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According to Jain cosmology, Mount Meru (or ''Sumeru'') is at the centre of the world surrounded by [[Jambudvipa|Jambūdvīpa]],{{sfn|Cort|2010|p=90}} in the form of a circle forming a diameter of 100,000 yojanas.<ref>{{citation |last=Cort |first=John |author-link=John E. Cort |title=Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0IF2CAAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2010 |orig-year=1953 |isbn=978-0-19-538502-1}}</ref><ref name="Schubring, Walther 1995 pp. 204–246">Schubring, Walther (1995), pp. 204–246</ref> There are two sets of sun, moon, and stars revolving around Mount Meru; while one set works, the other set rests behind Mount Meru.<ref>{{citation |author=CIL |url=http://ignca.nic.in/ps_04016.htm |title=Indian Cosmology Reflections in Religion and Metaphysics |work=Ignca.nic.in |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130060708/http://ignca.nic.in/ps_04016.htm |archive-date=30 January 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Shah |first=Pravin K. |title=Jain Geography |url=http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/workshop/Jain%20Geoghaph.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021119173949/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/workshop/Jain%20Geoghaph.PDF |archive-date=2002-11-19 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAHgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA504 |title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal - Asiatic Society of Bengal |year=1834}}</ref>

Every [[Tirthankara]] is taken to the summit of Meru by [[Indra]] shortly after his birth, after putting the Tirthankara child's mother into a deep slumber. There, he is bathed and anointed with precious unctions.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEvZaVmBQtgC&q=mahavira+mount+meru&pg=PA71 | title=India: Art and Culture, 1300-1900| isbn=9780030061141| last1=Welch| first1=Stuart Cary| last2=Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York| first2=N.Y.)| year=1985| publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/ritual/shantikalash.htm | title=Jainism Literature Center - Rituals | access-date=16 August 2019 | archive-date=16 August 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816172741/https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/ritual/shantikalash.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> Indra and other Devas celebrate his birth.