HT201260 how can upgrade my mac os 10.5.8 to mountain lion in india

well i really want to upgrade my current os 10.5.8 to mountain lion,
i have been doing some reading over the net and found out that fisrt i need to upgrade to snow leopard and than to lion. but how can i upgrade to snow leopard ? i have been searching apple store but didn`t found any thing yet regarding snow leopard, some one told me that i need to get snow leopard dvd, but where can i get that from? apple don`t see these any more...:(
please help me..   can i directly upgrade to lion or mountain lion?
or is there any other method ?..........

You DO have to Upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 first, then you can Upgrade directly to Mountain Lion from there, IF your computer supports Mountain Lion (see below)?  Snow Leopard at this point is only available by calling Apple Customer Support in your country and ordering the download code and process, or possibly a Disk, for Snow Leopard.
General Requirements
OS X v10.6.8 or later
2GB of memory
8GB of available space
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Supported
Models
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
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