Meanings
- A river in Central India. It has a course of 858 km and flows through the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
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The small hill of Budharaja that over-looks the city of Sambalpur and the famous river Mahanadi that flows past it, the Hirakud Island now celebrated for the enormous hydro-electric project established by the Government of India—all these, besides other notable places of interest in Orissa, have been immortalised in the lines of this weaver.
1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 202
Origin
- Sanskritमहानदी
- EnglishMahanadi
Borrowed from Sanskrit महानदी (mahānadī)/महानदि (mahānadi).
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Hindi महानदी
- महानदी (mahāndī)river in Central India
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