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| [[Agartha]] || A legendary city located at
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| [[Amaravati (mythology)|Amaravati]] ||
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| [[Ayotha Amirtha Gangai]] || An important river in [[Ayyavazhi mythology]].
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| [[Brahmapura|Brahmaloka]] || The abode of [[Brahma]], the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] god of creation.
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| [[Himavanta]] || A legendary forest that locates at the hill of
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| [[Jambudvīpa]] || Name for the terrestrial universe in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.
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|[[Mount Kailash|Kailasha]]
|The celestial abode of [[Shiva]].
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| [[Ketumati]] || A [[pure land]] belonging to [[Maitreya]] within [[Buddhism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kim |first=Inchang |title=The Future Buddha Maitreya: An Iconological Study |url={{GBurl|id=jikLAAAAYAAJ}} |publisher=D.K. Printworld |year=1996 |page=21}}</ref>
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|[[Kshira Sagara]]
| [[Mount Meru]] || The sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. It is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes. ▼
|A divine ocean of milk in Hindu mythology.
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|[[Manidvipa]]
|The abode of the supreme goddess in Hinduism.
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|[[Mount Mandara]]
|A sacred mountain mentioned in the [[Puranas]].
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▲| [[Mount Meru]] || The sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. It is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes.
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| [[Naraka]] || A realm resembling Hell in [[Dharmic religions|Indian religions]] where souls are temporarily punished before [[reincarnation]].▼
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| [[Nirvana]] || The ultimate state of soteriological release (liberation from repeated rebirth) commonly associated with Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. ▼
▲| [[Naraka]] || A realm resembling Hell in [[Dharmic religions]] where souls are temporarily punished before [[reincarnation]].
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|[[Patala]]
▲| [[Nirvana]] || The ultimate state of soteriological release (liberation from repeated rebirth) commonly associated with Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
|The netherworld of Indian religions.
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| [[Samavasarana]] || Meeting place of the [[tirthankara]]s in [[Jainism]].
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| [[Sanzu River]] || A mythological river in [[Buddhism in Japan|Japanese Buddhism]].
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| [[Shakdvipa|Shakadvipa]] || A land mass west of the [[Ural Mountains]] in [[Hindu mythology]].
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| [[Shambhala]] || In [[Tibetan Buddhist]] tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the [[Himalayas]]; [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophists]] regard it as the home on the [[etheric plane]] of the governing [[deity]] of
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| [[Siddhashila]] || The place where souls who have escaped the cycle of [[reincarnation]] and attained [[moksha]] go according to the cosmology of [[Jainism]].
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| [[Svarga]] ||
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| [[Thuvaraiyam Pathi]] || In
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| [[Trāyastriṃśa]] || An important world of the [[Deva (Buddhism)|devas]] in the [[Buddhist cosmology]].
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|[[Urdhva lokas|Urdhvaloka]]
|Seven upper worlds mentioned in the Puranas.
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| [[Uttarakuru]] ||
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| [[Vaikuntha]] ||
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