मन्दर

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

MANDARA I   A tortoise which is a character in the book Pañcatantra. (See under Pañcatantra).
MANDARA II   A brāhmaṇa who is greatly extolled in Śivapurāṇa. (See under Ṛṣabha).

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

   See : मंदराचल

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

मन्दर  mfn.  a mfn. slow, tardy, sluggish (= मन्द), [L.]
बहल   large, thick, firm (= ), [L.]
मन्दर  m.  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 असुरs for a churning-stick at the churning of the ocean for the recovery of the अमृत and thirteen other precious things lost during the deluge), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
स्वर्ग   heaven (= ; cf. मेरु), [L.]
   a mirror, [L.]
   a kind of metre, [Col.]
    N. of a Brāhman, [Cat.]
   of a विद्या-धर, [Kathās.]
मन्दार   of a son of हिरण्य-कशिपु ( B.)
मन्दार   of a tree of paradise or one of the 5 trees in इन्द्र's heaven (= ), [L.]
मन्दर    b See col.2.

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

मन्दर [mandara]   a.
   Slow, tardy, dull.
   Thick, dense; firm.
   Large, bulky.
   रः 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.]
   A necklace of pearls (of 8 or 16 strings).
   Heaven.
   A mirror.
   One of the five trees in Indra's paradise; see मन्दार.
-रम्   ind. Slowly, sluggishly.-Comp.
-आवासा, -वासिनी   Durgā.

Shabda-Sagara

मन्दर  mfn.  ( -रः-रा-रं)
   1. Large, bulky.
   2. Slow, sluggish, dull, lazy, &c. m. ( -रः)
   1. The mountain Mandara, with which the ocean was churned by the Suras, and Asuras, after the deluge, for the purpose of recovering the sacred things lost in it during that period.
   2. The Mandāra tree, one of the five trees of paradise.
   3. Swarga or the paradise of the Hindus.
   4. A string of pearls, &c.
   5. A mirror.
    E. मदि to please, to be lazy, &c. अरन् aff.

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मदि अरन्

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

   See : निरुद्योगिन्