maṃdara

Dictionary meanings for maṃdara from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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maṃdara

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. 1 Slow, tardy, dull.

2 Thick, dense; firm.

3 Large, bulky. raḥ 1 N. of a mountain (used by the gods and demons as a churning- stick when they churned the ocean for nectar); pṛṣatairmadaroddhūtaiḥ kṣāromeya havācyutaṃ R. 4. 27; abhinavajalasudara dhṛtamadara e Gīt. 1. śobhaiva maṃdarakṣabdhakṣubhe- tāṃbhodhivarṇanā Śi. 2. 107; Ki. 5. 30.

2 A necklace of pearls (of 8 or 16 strings).

3 Heaven.

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