Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

medas मेदस् – fat; adipose tissue

substantive masculine · substantive neuter

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AYI dictionary substantive neuter

fat; adipose tissue

Cappeller 1891 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

médas ·n. (m.) fat, corpulence.

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

Medas, as, n. fat, marrow, lymph (as one of the seven Dhātus or constituent elements of the body, and supposed to be a serous or adipose secretion that spreads amongst the muscular or fleshy fibres, per- forming the same functions to the flesh that the marrow of the bones performs to them; in Hindū physiology its proper seat is said to be the abdomen); vigour, energy (Ved.); corpulence; excessive fatness, morbid or unnatural corpulence (= meda-doṣa); a mystical term for the letter v; [cf. perhaps Gr. μῡε- λό-ς for μεδυλό-ς; Lat. medulla for medusla or medurla.]

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · German · substantive masculine

medas 1〉 m. BHĀG. P. 4,10,24.

Original text · German · substantive neuter

médas (von 1. mid) n. 1〉 Fett NIR. 4,3. AK. 2,6,2,15. H. 619. H. 624. HALĀY. 3,13. ṚV. 3,21,1. ṚV. 3,21,2. ṚV. 3,21,4. ojìṣṭhaṃ te madhya̱to meda̱ udbhṛ̀tam 5. saṃ prorṇùṣva̱ pīvàsā̱ medàsā ca ṚV. 10,16,7. AV. 4,27,5. VS. 21,40. VS. 21,43. medàsaḥ ku̱lyā upa̱ tānsràvantu VS. 35,20. VS. 39,10. medastás vom Fett an VS. 21,60. VS. 28,23. NIR. 4,3. — TS. 6,3,11,1. TS. 6,3,11,5. TBR. 2,8,4,4. ŚAT. BR. 3,8,2,26. ŚAT. BR. 3,8,4,5. medaāhutí ŚAT. BR. 11,5,6,7. tarhi nauṣadhīṣu paya āsīnna māṃse medaḥ PAÑCAV. BR. 24,18,3. KAUŚ. 11. KAUŚ. 26. medo'sṛṅmāṃsamajjāsthi vadantyannaṃ manīṣiṇaḥ M. 3,182. YĀJÑ. 1,44. MBH. 1,4797. MBH. 1,8149. MBH. 3,12250. R. 3,75,52. HARIV. 394. HARIV. 2938. HARIV. 11993. medaśchedakṛśodaraṃ vapuḥ ŚĀK. 38. PAÑCAT. I, 121. NAIṢ. 1,41 (pl.). einer der Grundstoffe des Körpers (dhātu, sāra), der sich im Fleische bildet, WISE 51. māṃsānmedaḥ prajāyate medaso 'sthi SUŚR. 1,44,1. SUŚR. 1,48,9. SUŚR. 1,49,4. SUŚR. 1,127,1. medoghna SUŚR. 187,12. SUŚR. 31,15. medodharā kalā SUŚR. 327,6. YĀJÑ. 3,106. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 68,96. medodoṣa Fettleibigkeit ŚĀRṄG. SAṂH. 1,7,46. medas allein dass. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 313,b,24. medoroga Verz. d. Oxf. H. 316,b,3. Vgl. amedaska (auch TS. 6,3,11,5), varṣa˚, vṛṣa˚. — 2〉 mystische Bez. des Buchstabens va WEBER. RĀMAT. 317. fg.

Original text · German · substantive neuter

medas 1〉 yakṛnmedas n. sg. Leber und Fett gaṇa gavāśvādi zu P. 2,4,11.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive neuter

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médas n. — 1〉 Fett. medastás vom Fett an Ausnahmsweise Pl. und m. — 2〉 Fettleibigkeit. — 3〉 mystische Bez. des Lautes va.

Apte 1890 substantive neuter

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medas n. [med-asun] 1 Fat, marrow one of the seven dhātus of the body and supposed to lie in the abdomen; Ms. 3. 182; Y. 1. 44. 2 Corpulence, fat of the body: medaśchadekṛśodaraṃ laghu bhavatyutthānayogyaṃ vapuḥ Ś. 2. 5. 3 Excessive fatness, morbid corpulence. Comp. — arbudaṃ a fatty tumour. — kṛta m. n. flesh. — grathiḥ a fatty tumour. — jaṃ, — tejas n. a bone. — dharā a membrane in the abdomen containing the fat. — piṃḍaḥ a lump of fat. — vṛddhiḥ f. 1 increase of fat, corpulence. 2 enlargement of the scrotum.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

médas n. (m.) Fett.

Burnouf 1866 substantive neuter

Original text · French · substantive neuter

medas n. mms. que meda.

Occurrences in source texts (2)

HP 2 occurrences
HP 2.21-2.23: Ṣaṭkarma 1 occurrence

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HP 2.37-2.43: Path to Manonmanī 1 occurrence

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