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Mount Meru
Also called Meru
The mountain at the centre of the universe in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain cosmology, with five peaks, imitated by temple towers and temple-mountains.
Rules that use the word
The temple as Mount Meru. Build the state temple as a stepped mountain with five towers in a quincunx (one at the centre and four at the corners), representing the five peaks of Mount Meru, surrounded by walls and a moat for the mountains and ocean that ring the world.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters South and Southeast Asia.
A feature of Khmer architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Moon gate · Mortise and tenon · Moulding · Mount · Mullion · Muqarnas · Mutule · Naga balustrade