As a Hindi name
हेमकूट · noun · masculine
हिमालय के उत्तर का एक पर्वत जो पुराणानुसार किंपुरुष का वर्ष और भारत की सीमा पर स्थित है — Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘g˚-peaked’, N. of one of the ranges of mountains dividing the known continent into 9 Varṣas (situated north of Himālaya and forming with it the boundaries of the Kiṃnara or Kimpur…
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hema—kūṭa m. ‘g˚-peaked’, N. of one of the ranges of mountains dividing the known continent into 9 Varṣas (situated north of Himālaya and forming with it the boundaries of the Kiṃnara or Kimpuruṣa Varṣa; see varṣa), MBh.; Hariv. &c.
of a monkey, R.
hemakūṭa The ‘golden-peaked’ mountain, one of the ranges of mountains which divide the known continent into nine Varṣas (varṣapavarta); it is generally supposed to be situated north of the Himālaya -or between the Meru and the Himālaya-forming with it the boundaries of the Kimpuruṣavarsha or abode of Kinnaras, cf K. 136. Kālidāsa speaks of it as ‘having plunged into the eastern and western oceans and emitting golden fluid’; see Ś. 7.
hemakūṭa m. (-ṭaḥ) One of the ranges of mountains dividing the known continent into nine Varṣas; this range is the second south of Ilāvṛta, or the central division, and is immediately to the north of the Himālaya, forming with it the boundaries of the Kinnara Varṣam. E. hema gold or golden, and kūṭa a peak.
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