Mahananda

Mahananda is a sandhi or word agglutinate in Sanskrit and several other Indo-Aryan languages meaning "great happiness", "great bliss", or someone who has achieved such a state. Once a common given name in India, this name is now widely considered archaic. Both the male form (IAST: mahānanda, [məɦɑnən̪d̪ə] in Sanskrit, [mɔɦɑnɔn̪d̪o] in Bengali), and the female form (IAST: mahānandā, [məɦɑnən̪d̪ɑ] in Sanskrit, [mɔɦɑnɔn̪d̪ɑ] in Bengali) are spelt in the same fashion in colloquial English transliteration.

Mahānanda as a proper noun can refer to:

• Mahananda Sapkota - a Nepalese social worker

Mahānandā as a proper noun can refer to:

• Mahananda River - a tributary of the Ganges, which flows through the Indian state of West Bengal, and the country of Bangladesh
• Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary - a protected wildlife sanctuary in West Bengal
• Mahananda - a 2001 film by Manik Das, recipient of the National Film Award for Best Non-feature Film on Family Welfare
• Mahananda - the largest supplier of milk in the Indian state of Maharashtra, a state-backed co-operative
• Sati Mahananda - a 1933 B&W, mythological Hindi film directed by Baburao Patel, remade in 1940 as a Tamil film
• Mahananda - a 1939 Telugu film directed by China Kameswara Rao Dronamraju

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