By the term “summit” of a “mountain” is meant the main undivided bronchus. In the Puranic conception, a mountain can have a summit and foot-mountains constituting its base. A mountain can thus consist of several bronchi. Generally speaking, a bronchus and its branches would be a mountain and its base. This is just like the external world where a central peak is connected to smaller mountains, as in a chain, which are given the same name as the peak itself. The smaller bronchi which emanate from the main bronchus could be considered as the ridges of a mountain. The “foot-mountains” are again themselves “mountains” having a “base” and this can go on for several generations down the bronchial tree.
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