hemakUwa The ‘golden-peaked’ mountain, one of the ranges of mountains which divide the known continent into nine Varṣas ( varzapavarta ); 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.