Mandara

Mandara is the great mountain used by the devas and asuras as the churning-rod at the churning of the ocean; puranic geography counts it among the great auxiliary peaks of Meru. SB 1.3.16: it was this mountain that the Kurma avatara bore on His back.

Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa 1.3.16 — Sanskrit Wikisource (pinned oldid=369178)