Back Gunung Mandara BAN মন্দার পর্বত (পৌরাণিক) Bengali/Bangla मंदर पर्वत HI Gunung Mandara ID Monte Mandara Italian ಮಂದರ ಪರ್ವತ KN Mandara LT മന്ദര പർവതം Malayalam Mandara (berg) Dutch Mandara Polish
Mandara (Sanskrit: मन्दर, मन्दार; mandara, mandāra) is the name of the mountain that appears in the Samudra Manthana episode in the Hindu Puranas, where it was used as a churning rod to churn the ocean of milk. Shiva's serpent, Vasuki, offered to serve as the rope pulled on one side by a team of asuras, and on the other, by a team of devas. The Puranas refer to various sacred places on the hill that are also believed to be the abode of the avatar Krishna as Madhusudana or the destroyer of the asura called Madhu, who was killed by Krishna and then covered by the Mount Mandara.