muditA · feminine
muditā , ( 1 ) (= Pali id. ; acc. to Senart , Mv i.629 and iii.523 , also PTSD s.v. , an altered form of mudutā, = Skt. mṛdutā, which has a quite diff. mg. in Pali ), joy ( esp. of the spirit); so the unanimous tradition, both of Pali comms. , and of northern texts and transl. ; if orig. derived from Skt. mṛdu-tā, all practical traces of this origin have certainly been lost; the word is always associated with root mud, as is proved by a number of clear descriptions, cited below; esp. as one (usually the 3d) of the four apramāṇa or brahmavihāra , qq.v. (with maitrī or maitrā , karuṇā, and upekṣā ), LV 8.4 ; 112.6 ; 183.3 ; 275.18 ; 297.12 ; 376.1, 2 ; 426.4 ; Mv i.357.19 ; ii.362.5 (here upekṣā omitted); iii.421.14, 22 ; Mvy 1506 ; Dbh 34.21 ; Bbh 209.4 ; 236.7 ; 241.16 ; Sādh 57.13 ff. ; AbhidhK. LaV-P. viii.196 ( joie ), citing the vyākhyā, muditā cārateḥ pratipakṣaḥ saumanasyarūpatvāt; with this cf. Mvy 1599 , aratiniḥsaraṇaṃ muditā; similar description in Sādh l. c. ( 57.18 hṛṣṭacittatā); esp. elaborate description Śikṣ 183.4 , katamā muditā? … prītiḥ prasādaḥ prāmodyaṃ cittasyānavalīnatā … cittasya prāmodyaṃ kāyasyaudbilyaṃ buddheḥ saṃpraharṣaṇaṃ manasa utplavaḥ etc. ; Tib. regularly dgaḥ ba , joy ; ( 2 ) rarely, and only in vss ( prob. m.c. ), = pramuditā as n. of the first bodhisattva-bhūmi: Laṅk 286.15 ; Sūtrāl. xx—xxi.32 .
sympathy in other’s welfare
Muditā (feminine) [abstract from mudu, for the usual mudutā, which in Pāli is only used in ordinary sense, whilst muditā is in pregnant sense. Its semantic relation to mudita (past participle of mud) has led to an etymological relation in the same sense in the opinion of Pāli commentators and the feeling of the Buddhist teachers. That is why Childers also derives it from mud, as does Buddhaghosa — BHS after the Pāli: muditā Divy 483] soft-heartedness, kindliness, sympathy. Often in triad mettā ("active love" Pj II 128), karuṇā ("preventive love," ibid), muditā ("disinterested love": modanti vata bho sattā modanti sādhu sutthū ti ādinā mayena hita-sukhāvippayogakāmatā muditā Pj II 128); e.g. at D I 251; S V 118; A I 196 etc. (see karuṇā). — Cf. also Snp 73; D III 50, 224, 248; Miln 332 (°saññā; + mettā°, karuṇā°); Vism 318 (where defined as "modanti tāya, taṃ-samaṅgino, sayaṃ vā modati etc."); As 192. See on term BMPE 251 (where equalled to συγχαιροσύνη); Cpd. 24 (called sympathetic {482} and appreciative), 97 (called "congratulatory and benevolent attitude"); Expositor 200 (interpretation here refers to mudutā As 151 "plasticity").
【陰】 喜，于他人福利的道賀。
muditā 【梵】muditā 【滿】urgun 【蒙】bayasgulang 【漢】喜
(fem, fem, abstr, from mudita) happiness (for); appreciation; sympathetic joy sympathy in other's welfare Construction: √mud + ita + ā mudita + ā