Kailash

English

Alternative forms

• Kailasa

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit कैलास (kailāsa).

Proper noun

Kailash

1. A mountain of the Transhimalaya in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, considered to be sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Bön.
   • 1984, 34:10 from the start, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom‎^[1] (Action-Adventure), →OCLC:

     Is that some kind of writing?
     Yeah, it's Sanskrit. It's part of the legend of Sankara. He climbs Mount Kailash where he meets Shiva, the Hindu god.

   • 1991, William S. Sax, Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage‎^[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 28:

     Her head is reborn as Shiva on Mount Kailash, and her trunk as Gaura Devi in Rishasau.

   • 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya‎^[3], New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136:

     We had our reward for our high camp and early start, for the sky was still clear, the view magnificent, with fresh vistas to the north of mountains in Tibet, of Gurla Mandhata, massive, majestic to the northeast, and further to the north, a distant pyramid, Kailash, most holy of all mountains in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

   • 1999, Robert Thurman, Tad Wise, Circling the Sacred Mountain: a Spiritual Adventure through the Himalayas‎^[4], Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:

     We first went to the Kailash area during my year of dissertation research in India, spending six idyllic months in the Himalayas in the exquisite hill town of Almora on the ancient route of pilgrimage to the mountain.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kailash.
2. A male given name from Sanskrit

Translations

mountain in Tibet

• Bengali: কৈলাস পর্বত (kōilaś porbot)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岡仁波齊／冈仁波齐 (zh) (Gāngrénbōqí)

• Hindi: कैलास (hi) m (kailās), कैलाश m (kailāś), कैलास पर्वत m (kailās parvat), कैलाश पर्वत m (kailāś parvat), अष्टापद (hi) m (aṣṭāpad), रजताद्रि (hi) m (rajtādri), हराद्रि (hi) m (harādri)
• Nepali: कैलाश पर्वत (kailāś parvat)
• Sanskrit: कैलाश पर्वत (kailāśa parvata)
• Tamil: கயிலை (ta) (kayilai)
• Telugu: కైలాసము (te) (kailāsamu)
• Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ (gangs rin po che)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kailas”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 895, column 1

Anagrams

• Kalashi, Lakisha, haikals, khalasi