The Mandara mountain was made the axle of that car; and the great river (the Ganges) constituted its Jangha; and the different directions and the subsidiary points constituted its several ornaments.
मन्दरः पर्वतश्चाक्षो जङ्घा तस्य महानदी॥ दिशश्च प्रदिशश्चैव परिवारो रथस्य तु।