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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain, 2,243 m (7,359 ft) high, in south-central Sri Lanka. It is a sacred place of pilgrimage for Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims.
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- noun a mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high)
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Sumatran species, 64. points of distinction, 65. those of Ceylon extolled, 209. elephants on Adam's Peak, 109. numbers in Ceylon, 76.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Skeen's _Adam's Peak_, p. 50.] [Footnote 16: Dîpa.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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The Tamil chieftain exhibited to Ibn Batuta his wealth in "pearls," and under his protection he made the pilgrimage to the summit of Adam's Peak accompanied by four jyogees who visited the foot-mark every year, "four
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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