Mahananda - the largest supplier of milk in the Indian state of Maharashtra, a state-backed co-operative

Mahananda - a 1939 Telugu film directed by China Kameswara Rao Dronamraju

Mahananda - a 2001 film by Manik Das, recipient of the National Film Award for Best Non-feature Film on Family Welfare

Mahananda is a sandhi or word agglutinate in Sanskrit and several other Indo-Aryan languages meaning "great happiness" or someone who has achieved such a state. Once a common given name in India, this name is now widely considered archaic. Both the male form (IAST: mahānanda, IPA: [məhɑnənðə] in Sanskrit, [mɔhɑnɔnðo] in Bengali), and the female form (IAST: mahānandā, [məhɑnəndɑ] in Sanskrit, [mɔhɑnɔnðɑ] in Bengali) are spelt in the same fashion in colloquial English transliteration. Mahānanda as a proper noun can refer to:

Mahananda Sapkota - a Nepalese social worker

Mahananda River - a tributary of Brahmaputra River, which flows through the Indian state of West Bengal, and the country of Bangladesh

Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary - a protected wildlife sanctuary in West Bengal

Sati Mahananda - a 1933 B&W, mythological Hindi film directed by Baburao Patel, remade in 1940 as a Tamil film