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A mountain famed in the Purāṇas and lying to the east of the Himālayas. [Bhāgavata, Pañcama Skandha] . The purānic importance of the mountain may be summarised as follows:--
(1) Kaśyapaprajāpati did tapas at this mountain. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 30, Verse 10] .
(2) Ananta (Ādiśeṣa) had once done tapas here. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 36, Verse 3] .
(3) Once Pāṇḍu went to the Śataśṛṅga mountain along with his wives Kuntī and Mādrī for doing tapas, and on that occasion they visited Gandhamādana also. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 118, Verse 48] .
(4) This mountain assumes the form of a divine person. attends Kubera's assembly and worships him. [Sabhā Parva, Chapter 10, Verse 32] .
(5) Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the company of Nārāyaṇarṣi spent 10,000 years on this mountain as an anchorite. [Vana Parva, Chapter 12, Verse 11] .
(6) Arjuna on his way to Mount Kailāsa to do tapas crossed the Gandhamādana mountain. [Vana Parva, Chapter 37, Verse 41] .
(7) Only those who possess power got by tapas will be able to climb this mountain. [Vana Parva, Chapter 140, Verse 22] .
(8) There is the Badari tree and under it there is an āśrama of Naranārāyaṇas on the heights of this mountain, and Yakṣas stay there always. [Vana Parva, Chapter 141, Verse 22] .
(9) Once the Pāṇḍavas, with the aid of Ghaṭotkaca mounted this mountain. [Vana Parva, Chapter 145] .
(10) It was here, at this mountain that Bhīma killed Maṇimān, a friend of Kubera. [Vana Parva, Chapter 160, Verse 76] .
(11) Kubera, who was driven out of Laṅkā stayed at this mountain during the initial periods. [Vana Parva, Chapter 275, Verse 33] .
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गन्ध—मादन m. m. ‘intoxicating with fragrance’ =
-मोदन, [L.]
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‘delighting in fragrances’, a large black bee, [L.]
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गन्ध-मदन
N. of a mountain (forming the division between इलावृत and भद्राश्व, to the east of मेरु, renowned for its fragrant forests), [MBh.] ; [Hariv.] &c. (once , [Hcat. i, 6, 24] )
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