Mela—fair, festival.Prabhupada ›Glossary›-M-›Mela-fair, festival. Mela-fair, festival. Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/glossary/m/mela-fair-festival Previous: Mechanomorphism-In Contemporary Scientific Mythology (1957), Stephen Toulmin wrote: We are inclined to suppose that myths must necessarily be anthropomorphic, and that personification is the unique road to myth. But this assumption is baseless; the myths of the twentieth century, as we shall see, are not so much anthropomorphic as mechanomorphic. In mechanomorphism, God or the total universe is conceived in terms of mythical machines. See Anthropomorphism. Next: Menaka-the famous society girl of the heavenly planets who seduced the sage Visvamitra.