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mandara

mfn. slow, tardy, sluggish (= manda), [L.]


large, thick, firm (= bahala), [L.]


m. a pearl chain consisting of 8 or 16 strings, [L.]


N. of a sacred mountain (the residence of various deities; it served the gods and Asuras for a churning-stick at the churning of the ocean for the recovery of the Amṛta and thirteen other precious things lost during the deluge), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.


heaven (= svarga; cf. meru), [L.]


a mirror, [L.]


a kind of metre, [Col.]


N. of a Brāhman, [Cat.]


of a Vidyā-dhara, [Kathās.]


of a son of Hiraṇya-kaśipu (B. mandāra)


of a tree of paradise or one of the 5 trees in Indra's heaven (= mandāra), [L.]


See col. 2.