Kailasa

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Kailasa is the mythic Himalayan mountain realm revered in Hindu tradition as the celestial residence of Lord Shiva and his divine retinue.

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Label Occurrences
Kailasa canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindu religious concept
mythological place
sacred mountain
accessMode spiritual realization rather than physical travel
associatedConcept Mount Meru
associatedDeity Ganesha
Kartikeya
Goddess Gauri
surface form: Parvati
associatedPractice Shaiva tantra
yoga
associatedWith Himalayan sacred geography
Nandi
Tandava
surface form: cosmic dance of Shiva
cosmicFunction abode of ascetics and sages
place of meditation for Shiva
culturalSignificance ideal of renunciation
ideal of yogic perfection
describedAs celestial abode
mountain realm
epithetOfShiva Shankara
surface form: Kailasanatha
hasAspect crystal mountain
snow-clad peaks
influenced naming of many Kailasanathar temples
inhabitedBy Shiva’s ganas
divine beings
locatedInNarrative Himalayas
mentionedIn Mahabharata
Puranas
Ramayana
Shiva Purana
Skanda Purana
primaryDeity Shiva
realmType divine mountain realm
relatedButDistinctFrom Mount Kailash
surface form: Mount Kailash (physical mountain in Tibet)
religion Hinduism
roleInMythology center of Shaiva cosmology
residence of Shiva
symbolizes axis between heaven and earth
spiritual elevation
transcendence
tradition Shaivism
veneratedBy Hinduism
surface form: Hindus

many Shaivite sects
worshipPractices pilgrimage in imagination and meditation

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kartikeya abode Kailasa
Nandi guardianOf Kailasa