Khandadhar Falls, Sundagarh, 244-meter waterfall in Sundargarh, India

Khandadhar Falls is a tall waterfall in Sundargarh district, India, where water drops over a steep rock face into a forested valley below. The water plunges over bare granite cliffs surrounded by thick greenery and sends a fine mist into the air when the flow is strong.

The falls lie in Nandapani near Bonaigarh, Sundargarh district, on the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The Pauri Bhuiya, who live around Khandadhar, tell of the goddess Kankala Devi, who ate through a rock and released the Khandadhara. Mining on the Khandadhar hill range, including the Kurmitar iron-ore mine, has diverted a mountaintop stream and partly dried the fall.

The falls lie in Nandapani near Bonaigarh, in the territory of the Pauri Bhuiya, who tell how the goddess Kankala Devi ate through a rock and released the Khandadhara, the split-rock waterfall. A couple of the community later found the goddess Kanta Kumari, protector of prosperity, in a grain heap at the Keonjhar end of the range and carried her home to Sundargarh.

Access requires a walk through forest trails that can become slippery when wet, making sturdy footwear necessary. The best time to visit is during and shortly after the monsoon season when the water flows abundantly.

The name means "sword-like fall": khanda is sword and dhara is stream or fall, because the single plunge resembles a sword. The Korapani Nala drops 244 metres in one unbroken fall, the second highest in Odisha after Barehipani Falls. Mining and a diverted mountaintop stream have partly dried the flow.