ORIENTAL SERIES.

MANDAKINIMANDHATRL 197
years." They succeeded, and became his wives, and inhabited a
house concealed in the lake, which, from them, was called Pan-
chapsaras.
MANDARIN! The heavenly Ganges, The Ganges. An
arm of the Ganges which flows through Kedara-natha. A river
near the mountain Chitra-kufo (q.v.) in Bundelkhand. It was
near the abode of Eama and Sita, and is mentioned both in the
Eamayawa
and Maha-bharata. It would seem to be the modern
Pisuni.
MA^VDALA. 'A circle, orb.' A circuit or territorial division,
as Chola-marafala, i.e., CoromandeL According to one arrangement,
the Sanhita of the J^g-veda is divided into ten Manilas.
MAJTOALA-K^/TYA. A circular dance. The dance of
the Gopls round Knshm and Eadha.
HANDA-PALA. A childless saint, who, according to the
Maha-bharata, after long perseverance in devotion and asceticism,
died and went to the abode of Yama. His desires being still
unsatisfied, he inquired the cause,
and was told that all his
devotions had failed because he had no son, no putra (put,
'hell/ tra, 'drawer'), to save him from hell He then assumed
the form of a species
of bird called $arngika, and by a female
of that species, who was called Jarita, he had four sons.
MANDAEA. The great mountain which the gods used for
the churning of the ocean. It is supposed to be the mountain
so named in Bhagalpur, which is held sacred. See Kurma-
avatara, under Avatara.
MAKDAVI. Daughter of Kusa-dhwaja, cousin of Sita, and
wife of Eama's brother Bharata.
MAKDEHAS. A class of terrific Eakshasas, who were hos-
tile to the sun and endeavoured to devour him.
MANDHAT.&Z A king, son of Yuvanaswa, of the race of
Ikshwaku, and author of a hymn in the jffig-veda. The Hari-
vansa and some of the Purawas make Mandhatn to have been
born in a natural way from his mother Gauii, but the Yishmi
and Bhagavata Puranas tell an extraordinary story about his
birth, which is probably based upon a forced derivation of his
name. Yuvanaswa had no son, which grieved him much.
Some holy sages near whom he lived instituted a religious rite
to procure progeny for him t One night they placed a conse-
crated vessel of water upon an altar as part of their ceremony,