As a deity name
Name 130 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
मन्दाकिनी · mandākinī · s.f.
The stream of the celestial Ganges; (poet.) the galaxy or milky way — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1073
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘going or streaming slowly’, N. of an arm of the Ganges (flowing down through the valley of Kedāra-nātha in the Himālayas) and of other rivers
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Dictionary citations
mandākinī f. (fr. manda + 2. añc) ‘going or streaming slowly’, N. of an arm of the Ganges (flowing down through the valley of Kedāra-nātha in the Himālayas) and of other rivers, MBh.; Pur.
(esp.) the heavenly Ganges, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
another river in heaven, BhP.
N. of a metre, Chandom.
(in astron.) N. of a partic. conjunction.
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