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Sanskrit
Adjective
मन्दर • (mandara)
- slow, tardy, sluggish (= मन्द (manda))
- large, thick, firm (= बहल (bahala))
Declension
Noun
मन्दर • (mandara) stem, m
- a pearl chain consisting of 8 or 16 strings
- name 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 Amrita and thirteen other precious things lost during the deluge)
- heaven (= स्वर्ग (svarga); confer मेरु (meru))
- mirror
- a kind of metre
- name of a Brahmin
- name of a son of हिरण्यकशिपु (Hiraṇya-kaśipu)
- name of a विद्याधर (Vidyā-dhara)
- name of a tree of paradise or one of the 5 trees in Indra's heaven (= मन्दार (mandāra)); the coral tree
Declension
Descendants