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Mandsaur 

human settlement in India
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Instance of	city big city
Location	Madhya Pradesh, India
Significant event	Siege of Mandsaur
Population	141,667 (2011)
Elevation above sea level	427 m
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24° 01′ 48″ N, 75° 04′ 48″ E
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Mandsaur is a city in western Madhya Pradesh, near the Rajasthan border. It is near the confluence of river Shivna and river Somli (Sumli).

Mandsaur has a long history as the famed ancient city of Dasapura or Dasrathor, or just Dasor in pre-14th century Hindu texts. It is mentioned as a prosperous city in one of poems of Kalidasa. The city became a target of plunder during the Delhi Sultanate era. It thereafter came to be called Mandsaur in Persian and later era texts, also spelled in 19th and 20th century publications as Mandasor, Mandesar, Mundesor, and other phonetic spellings).

The name Dasapura has roots in the ancient city's legendary ten divisions (interconnected hamlets). After the 13th-century, it earned the nickname Manda-Dasor, literally "distressed Dasor", which likely referred to its destruction and ruinous condition. This evolved to just Mandsaur. During the Sultanate and Mughal period, Mandsaur and its Dasapura fort was a strategic hub for both the Mewar and Malwa regions. The Dashpur fort was rebuilt with Indo-Islamic architecture during this period.

Mandsaur and neighboring region within a radial distance of about 15 miles has been a major source of important inscriptions, temple ruins, Hindu and Jain artwork dated from the 2nd to the 14th-century CE. Of these the Pashupatinath temple with a historic 8-face Shiva linga, the Yasodharman pillars in Sondani (4 km from Mandsaur), and several Aulikara inscriptions on stone are most notable and provide key information about Indian history, arts and culture before the 8th-century.