Meanings
- pluralplural of mandir
Hindus often use objects to help them ‘see’ God. Many of the statues that they use in their mandirs are thought to represent God.
1998, Dave Symmons, This is Hinduism, Cheltenham: Stanley Thornes, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8, →ISBN2 more examples
In 2010, I revisited these colonies to see what thirteen years had brought to the mandirs planned for these new middle-class environments.
2015 January 14, Daniel Gold, Provincial Hinduism: Religion and Community in Gwalior City, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58, →ISBNPerhaps Mulhar Rao made the smaller mandirs, and has got credit for the whole, by the judicious appropriation of a small fund, to the support of poor brahmans, ten of whom are daily fed at Ank-pát in his name.
1837, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Volume 6, Part 2, page 824
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