The ‘golden-peaked’ mountain, one of the ranges of mountains which divide the known con- tinent into nine Varṣas (varṣapavarta); it is general- ly supposed to be situated north of the Himālaya or between the Meru and the Himālaya-form- ing with it the boundaries of the Kimpuruṣa- varsha or abode of Kinnaras, cf K. 136. Kālidāsa speaks of it as ‘having plunged into the eastern and western oceans and emitting golden...