Mansa may refer to:

Places

In India

Mansa, Gujarat Mansa is a town with municipality and former princely state, in Gandhinagar district in the western Indian state of Gujarat. History During the British raj, Mansa was a Third class non-salute state under the Mahi Kantha Agency. It ceas ...

, a town in northern Gujarat, Western India; the capital of: ** Mansa, Gujarat Assembly constituency ** Mansa State, a princely state under the Mahi Kantha Agency in India *

Mansa district, Punjab Mansa district is a List of districts of Punjab, India, district in the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is Mansa, Punjab, Mansa city. Mansa district was formed on 13 April 1992 from the erst while district of Bathinda. The dis ...

Mansa, Punjab Mansa is a city and municipal council in Mansa district of Punjab, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Mansa district and is situated on the Bathinda- Jind-Delhi railway line and also on the Barnala- Sardulgarh- Sirsa state hi ...

, the main town in the Indian district

Elsewhere

Mansa District, Zambia Mansa District with headquarters at Mansa is a district located in Luapula Province Luapula Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces located in the northern part of the country. Luapula Province is named after the Luapula River and its capi ...

, a district of Luapula province, Zambia **

Mansa, Zambia Mansa is the capital of the Luapula Province of Zambia, and headquarters of Mansa District. It takes its name from the local Chief Mansa and the small Mansa River which flows west to the Luapula River. During British rule the city was named ...

, capital of the Luapula province * Mansa Cove, Antarctica *

Barra Mansa Barra Mansa is a Brazilian municipality located in the south of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is in the microregion of the Paraíba Valley, within the mesoregion of the South Fluminense. It is located at latitude 22º32'39 "south, longitude 44 ...

, Brazil

Religion

Manasa Manasa () is a Hindu goddess of snakes. She is worshipped mainly in Bihar, Bengal, Jharkhand, Lower Assam and other parts of northeastern India and in Uttarakhand, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite, and also for fertility and ...

Devi, a Hindu goddess, an incarnation of the goddess Durga *

Mata Mansa Devi Mandir Mata Mansa Devi is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Mansa Devi, a form of Shakti, in the Panchkula district of the Indian state of Haryana. The temple complex is spread of of the Shivalik foothills in the village of Bilaspur, near Secto ...

, a temple in Panchkula district, Haryana, India *

Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar (Hindi: मंसा देवी मंदिर, हरिद्वार) is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Mansa Devi in the holy city of Haridwar in the Uttarakhand state of India. The temple is located at ...

, a temple in the state of Uttarakhand, India *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Mansa The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mansa ( la, Mansaën(sis)) is a suffragan diocese in the city of Mansa in the ecclesiastical province of Kasama in Zambia. History * July 10, 1952: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Rosebery from the A ...

, Zambia

People

* Johan Ludvig Mansa (1740–1820), German-Danish landscape gardener * Mansa Devi, wife of

Guru Amar Das Guru Amar Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਮਰ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574), sometimes spelled as Guru Amardas, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73. Befo ...

(1479–1574), the third Sikh Guru *

Mansa Ram Mansa Ram is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Mansa Ram was a member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Karsog constituency in Mandi district Mandi district is one of the central districts ...

, Indian politician

Other uses

* MANSA, a quality-of-life assessment tool *

Mansa (title) ''Mansa'' ( ''mansaw'') is a Maninka and Mandinka word for a ruler, generally translated as "king". It is particularly known as the title of the rulers of the Mali Empire, such as Mansa Musa, and in this context is sometimes translated as ...