मन्दाकिनी Mandākinī

First of four synonyms Amarasiṃha gives for the celestial river. Colebrooke's own footnote reads that this is 'The Ganges of the sky, suggested probably by the milky-way' — the equation is explicit in the earliest public-domain scholarship on the text. NOTE the contrast with the Purāṇic layer already on file, where Mandākinī is always a terrestrial Himalayan river and the Milky Way word is chāyāpatha.