​MANDHATA, a village with temples in India, in N imar district of the Central Provinces, on the south bank of the Narbada. Pop. (1901), 832. It is a famous place of Hindu pilgrimage, as containing one of the twelve great lingas of Siva; and as late as the beginning of the 19th century it was the scene of the self immolation of devotees who threw themselves from the cliffs into the river.