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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From मिद् (mid, “to grow fat”, root) + -अस् (-as).
Pronunciation
Noun
मेदस् • (médas) stem, n
- fat, flesh, marrow, lymph
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 4.10.24:
- ववृषू रुधिरौघासृक्पूयविण्मूत्रमेदसः। निपेतुर्गगनादस्य कबन्धान्यग्रतोऽनघ॥
- vavṛṣū rudhiraughāsṛkpūyaviṇmūtramedasaḥ. nipeturgaganādasya kabandhānyagratoʼnagha.
- My dear faultless Vidura, in that rainfall there was blood, mucus, pus, stool, urine and marrow falling heavily before Dhruva Mahārāja, and there were trunks of bodies falling from the sky.
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 4.17.25:
- अमूषां क्षुत्परीतानामार्तानां परिदेवितम्। शमयिष्यामि मद्बाणैर्भिन्नायास्तव मेदसा॥
- amūṣāṃ kṣutparītānāmārtānāṃ paridevitam. śamayiṣyāmi madbāṇairbhinnāyāstava medasā.
- Now, with the help of my arrows, I shall cut you to pieces and with your flesh satisfy the hunger-stricken citizens, who are now crying for want of grains.
- excessive fatness, corpulence
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Descendants
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “मेदस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 832.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मेदस्”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मेदस्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “medas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press