Mahendragiri is the name of a hill in Tirunelveli District, South

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

. The hill is located in

Tirunelveli Tirunelveli (, ta, திருநெல்வேலி, translit=Tirunelveli) also known as Nellai ( ta, நெல்லை, translit=Nellai) and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tami ...

District and is part of the southern range of the Western Ghats, with an elevation of . The

ISRO Propulsion Complex The ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), located at Mahendragiri of Tamil Nadu, is an Indian Space Research Organisation centre involved in testing, assembling, and integrating propulsion systems and stages that are developed at ISRO's Liquid Propu ...

, a test facility for

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's launch vehicle and satellite propulsion systems, is situated on the lower slopes of this mountain.

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* {{cite book , last=Nagar , first=Shanti Lal , title=Genesis and evolution of the Rāma kathā in Indian art, thought, literature, and culture: from the earliest period to the modern times, Volume 2 , publisher=B.R. Pub. Co. , year=1999 , isbn=81-7646-084-2 , ref=nag Mountains of the Western Ghats Ancient Indian mountains Tirunelveli Hills of Tamil Nadu