Sineru untranslated

Sineru. A mountain, forming the center of the world. It is submerged in the sea to a depth of eighty-four thousand yojanas and rises above the surface to the same height. It is surrounded by seven mountain ranges – Yugandhara, Īsadhara, Karavīka, Sudassana, Nemindhara, Vinataka and Assakaṇṇa (Snp­a.ii.443; Vin-a.i.119; Vsm.206; cp. Mvu.ii.300; Divy.217; it is eighty thousand leagues broad, AN.iv.100).

On the top of Sineru is Tāvatiṁsa (Snp­a.ii.485f), while at its foot is the Asurabhavana of ten thousand leagues; in the middle are the four Mahā Dīpā with their two thousand smaller dīpā (the Asurabhavana was not originally there, but sprang up by the power of the Asuras when they were thrown down from Tāvatiṁsa, Dhp­a.i.272; see, e.g., Snp­a.i.201).

Sineru is often used in similes, its chief characteristic being its un-shakeability (suṭṭhuṭhapita) (e.g., Snp. vs.683). It is also called Meru or Sumeru (e.g., Cv.xlii.2), Hemameru (e.g., Cv.xxxii.79) and Mahā Neru (MN.i.338; also Neru, Ja.iii.247).

Each Cakkavāḷa has its own Sineru (AN.i.227; v.59), and a time comes when even Sineru is destroyed (SN.iii.149).

When the Buddha went to Tāvatiṁsa, he covered the distance there from the earth in three strides he set his right foot down on the top of Yugandhara and his left on Sineru, the next step brought him to Tāvatiṁsa, the whole distance so covered being sixty-eight hundred thousand leagues. Dhp­a.iii.216.