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mandodarī

f. N. of Rāvaṇa's favourite wife (daughter of Maya and mother of Indra-jit; she advised her husband to deliver Sītā to Rāma, but he did not heed her; she is regarded as one of the five very chaste women, the other four being Ahalyā, Draupadī, Sītā, and Tārā), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda, [MBh.]

of the mother of the lexicographer Jaṭā-dhara, [Cat.]