m.Name of a sacred mountain (the residence of various deities;it served the gods and asura-s 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) etc.
मन्दर a. 1 Slow, tardy, dull. -2 Thick, dense; firm. -3 Large, bulky. -रः 1 N. of a mountain (used by the gods and demons as a churning stick when they churned the ocean for nectar); पृषतैर्मन्दरोद्धूतैः क्षीरोर्मय इवाच्युतम् R.4.27; अभिनवजलसुन्दर धृतमन्दर ए Gīt.1; शोभैव मन्दरक्षुब्धक्षुभिताम्भोधिवर्णना Śi.2.17; Ki.5.3. -2 A necklace of pearls (of 8 or 16 strings). -3 Heaven. -4 A mirror. -5 One of the five trees in Indra's
paradise; see मन्दार. -रम् ind. Slowly, sluggishly. -Comp. -आवासा, -वासिनी Durgā.
m. paradise-tree (one of the five in Indra's heaven); N. of a sacred moun tain with which the ocean was churned; N. of a fairy: -deva, m. N. of a prince of the fairies: î, f. N. of his sister; -devîya, a. relating to Mandara-deva.
noun (masculine) a kind of metre (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a mirror (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a pearl chain consisting of 8 or 16 strings (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Brāhman (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a people
name of a sacred mountain (the residence of various deities) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Hiraṇyakaśipu (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a tree of paradise or one of the 5 trees in Indra's heaven (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Vidyādhara (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a valley (?) near Avimukta (?)
[medic.] name of an antidote Frequency rank 2748/72933
adjective firm (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
large (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
slow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sluggish (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tardy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
thick (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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