Mount Mandara
place · 2 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Mandara · mount Mandara
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Mountain used as the churning staff in the churning of the ocean of milk.
"Having resolved to churn, using Vāsuki as the churning rope and Mount Mandara as the churning staff, those of boundless might churned.
With those two full arms, the lord of rākṣasas shone like a mountain — like Mandara with its two peaks.
Encircled by divine ornaments, handsome, able to take on any form — like Mount Mandara asleep, abundant with trees, forests, and shrubs.
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
A famed mythic mountain, said to be the constant assembly hall of the gods, identified with the mountain described in the passage.
For this was said to be Mount Mandara, famed as the first of mountains.