maDyama a. [ maDye mavaH ma ] 1 Being or standing in the middle, middle, central; pituH padaM maDyamamutpataMtI V. 1. 19 ; maDyame pala Ki. 9. 2 ; so maDyamalokapAlaH, maDyamapadaM maDyamareKA q. v. 2 Intermediate, intervening. 3 Middling, of a middling condition or quality, mediocre; as in uttamADamamaDyama . 4 Middling, moderate; tena maDyamaSaktinimitrARi sTApitAnyataH R. 17. 58. 5 Middle-sized. 6 Neither youngest nor oldest, the middleborn (as a brother); praRamati pitarO vAM maDyamaH pAMqavo'yaM Ve. 5. 26. 7 Impartial, neutral. 8 Mean (in astr. ). 9 Belonging to the meridian. — maH 1 The fifth note in music. 2 A particular musical mode. 3 The mid-land country; see maDyadeSa . 4 The second person (in grammar). 5 A neutral sovereign; DarmottaraM maDyamamASrayaMte R. 13. 7. 6 The governor of a province. — mA 1 The middle finger. 2 A marriageable girl, one arrived at the age of puberty. 3 The pericarp of a lotus. 4 One of the classes of heroines (Nāyikās) in poetic compositions, a woman in the middle of her youth; cf. S. D. 100. 5 ( pb ) A central blossom. — maM 1 The middle. 2 The waist. Comp. — aMguliH the middle finger. — AharaRaM (in alg. ) elimination of the middle term in an equation. — kakzA the middle court yard. — KaMqaM the middle term of an equation. — jAta a. middle-born. — padaM the middle member (of a compound). °lopin m. a subdivision of the Tatpuruṣa compound in which the middle word is omitted in composition; the usual instance given is SAkapArTivaH which is dissolved as SAkapriyaH pArTivaH ; here the middle word priya is omitted; so CAyAtaruH, guqaDAnAH &c. — pAMqavaH an epithet of Arjuna. — puruzaH the second person (in grammar). — BftakaH a husbandman or cultivator (who works both for himself and his master or landlord). — gatraH midnight. — reKA the central meridian of the earth. — lokaH the middle world, the earth. °pAlaH a king; R. 2. 16. — vayas n. middle-aged. — vayaska a. middle-aged. — saMgrahaH intrigue of a middling character, such as sending presents of flowers &c. to another's wife; it is thus defined by Vyāsa: - prezaRaM gaMDamAlyAnAM DUpaBUzaRavAsasAM . praloBataM cAnnapAnErmaDyamaH saMgrahaH smftaH .. . — sAhasaH the second of the three penalties or modes of punishment; see Ms. 8. 138. — (saH -saM) an outrage or offence of the middle class. — sTa a. being in the middle.