Trikuta is a three-peaked mountain. The Lanka of Ravana was located in it

Significance to history and Hinduism

Trikuta is one of the twenty mountains surrounding Maha Meru (

Mount Meru Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritu ...

) the home of Brahma. The height is said in the

Bhagavata Purana The ''Bhagavata Purana'' ( sa, भागवतपुराण; ), also known as the ''Srimad Bhagavatam'', ''Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana'' or simply ''Bhagavata'', is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (''Mahapuranas''). Composed in Sa ...

to be 10,000

yojana A yojana (Sanskrit: योजन; th, โยชน์; my, ယူဇနာ) is a measure of distance that was used in ancient India, Thailand and Myanmar. A yojana is about 12–15 km. Edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BCE) Ashoka, in his Major R ...

s, and the three peaks are iron, silver and gold. The mountain is believed to be the second home of the divine goddess

Durga Durga ( sa, दुर्गा, ) is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi. She is associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction, and wars. Durga's legend centres around co ...

. She was created with the power of the three goddesses to end evil; hence, the mountain is called Trikuta. Trikuta Mountains

Trikuta in Jammu

Another Trikuta is located in Jammu,INDIA division. Trikuta, the triple peak, is where the holy shrine of

Vaishno Devi Vaishno Devi (also known as Mata Rani, Trikuta, Ambe and Vaishnavi) is a manifestation of the Hindu Mother Goddess, Durga or Adi Shakti. The words "''Maa''" and "''Mata''" are commonly used in India for ''mother'', and thus are often heavily ...

can be found.Eck, Diana. ''India: A Sacred Geography'', p. 282 At this place Bhairo baba mandir found. (Random House 2013).

References

{{Reflist Locations in Hindu mythology Ancient Indian mountains Places in the Ramayana Katra, Jammu and Kashmir