Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Hind, myth., the central mountain of the earth, of prodigious size and precious material, having on its summit the abode of the gods.
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Examples
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It consists of 108 beads of the same size and an additional bead, the meru, which is slightly larger than the others.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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In indigenous Pemon, the falls are called Kerepakupai meru, meaning "waterfall of the deepest place."
The Times of India 2009
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Email newsletter, or as they are known in Japanese English mail magazines (which is usually then abbreviated to meru-maga) are a popular way for companies to communicate with their customers and potential customers.
Reminder: What Japan Thinks Newsletter, and a new web site 2008
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ANC e phaella taba ya letona le kgabane ho tsa metsi le meru, tjama, thoholetsong e lebisitsweng ho Pontsho Moletsane, Elvis Moshodi le Sechaba Ramabenyane ba ileng ba bea sekolo sa Setjhaba-Se-Maketse, Botshabelo sehlohlolong, mme e ba nkela hloohong haholo.
Free State Pupils Win 2005 Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2005
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When you reach the meru, you reverse the beads in the hand, continuing to recite the mantra and moving the mala in the opposite direction.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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The meru bead signals that with one mantra recited for each bead, japa has been done 108 times and the mala has been completed.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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Marakwet: ochon Mbeere: mungo, rwonge, rwongi Somali: dhangalow, dongola Swahili: mbungo, mpira, bungo (fruit) Taita: meru, mameru (plural), ndimu Taveta: ivungu
Chapter 7 1999
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Maha-meru, which rises in the midst of the seven _dwipas_, or great peninsulas, like the stalk between the expanded petals of a lotus, that Brahma, the creator, sits enthroned on a pillar of gold and gems, adored by Rishis and Gandharbhas; while the regents of the four quarters of the universe hold their stations on the four faces of the mountain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The royal _meru_, which had been erected in a small park in the outskirts of the capital at a cost of one hundred thousand ticals, was a really beautiful structure of true
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As there were a number of bodies to be burned, the ceremonies lasted upward of a week, King Rama going in state each afternoon to the _meru_, where he took his place on a throne in an elaborately decorated pavilion.
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