f. (fr. manda + 2. añc) ‘going or streaming slowly’, N. of an arm of the Ganges (flowing down through the valley of Kedāra-nātha in the Himālayas) and of other rivers, [MBh.]; [Pur.]
(esp.) the heavenly Ganges, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
another river in heaven, [BhP.]
N. of a metre, [Chandom.]
(in astron.) N. of a partic. conjunction.