Mandara Parvat!!

The Mandara Parvat is a very important mountain and it has played an important role in Hindu mythology whose story has become one of the most popular stories of Hindu mythology. In this story of the Samudra Manthan, this very mountain was used and it played one of the most important role in the making of amrit (elixir or nectar that gives one eternal life on drinking it).  
According to Hindu legend, Lord Indra and the other divinities who live in Svarg Lok were cursed the Rishi Durvasa that they would lose all of their strength. Because of this, the asuras emerged victorious in the battle between the devtas and the asuras and had taken over the Svarg Lok. Not knowing what to do, the devtas went to Lord Vishnu for advice on how to tackle the situation and He told the devtas that only the nectar that is present at the bottom of the Ksheer Sagar (ocean of milk) can help them regain their strength and reverse the curse of Rishi Durvasa, but for this, they needed the help of asuras. 
When the asuras agreed to help the devtas, the Samudra Manthan took place. Samudra Manthan literally means churning of the ocean (they basically churned the ocean the way Mother Yasoda churned butter for Krishna). For this, they took the Mandara Parvat as the churning rod, the snake Vasuki (the snake often depicted around Shiva's neck) as the rope that would help in the churning of the ocean and it would be wrapped around the Mandara Parvat. The asuras and devtas took two sides of the snake which was the head and the tail respectively. They churned for 1000 years and 14 valuables came out of it, the fourteenth one being the amrit that was in a pot held by Dhanvantri. The asuras soon got hold of the amrit and to distract them, Lord Vishnu took the form of a lady named Mohini on the pleading of the devtas. Mohini first gave the devtas the amrit and knowing that the asuras wouldn't get any, an asura named RahuKetu disguised himself as a devta and drank the amrit. On knowing that he was an asura, Lord Vishnu separated his head from his body with the help of His Sudarshan Chakra. But because he had drank the amrit, he was still alive. The head and the body became planets known as Rahu and Ketu respectively. The devtas then fought the asuras, emerged victorious in battle, regained the Svarg Lok and balance was restored once again in the world.  

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