styAnamidDa
styāna-middha , nt. (= Pali thīna-m°; in Pali and BHS analyzed as styāna plus middha , dvandva, qq.v. ; AMg. thīṇaddhi, thīṇagiddhi, Jain Skt. styānarddhi, styānagṛddhi; as suggested by me in NIA. 2.607—610 , all these forms go back to a cpd. *thīna-(m-)iddha or -iddhi, Skt. *styāna-ṛddhi, the m being orig. ‘hiatus-bridging’, increase of languor ), torpor and drowsiness , esp. as one of the five nīvaraṇa , q.v. , hindrances (to religious life); often in lists of (some or all) the nīvaraṇa , and almost always with definite implication that it is reprehensible; a rare exception is Gv 20.10 (tad yathāpi nāma puruṣo … mahato janakāyasya) madhye styānamiddham avakrāmet ( would get sleepy ), sa suptaḥ svapnāntaragatas … (note that middha , q.v. , is sometimes used in this innocent sense); with nīvaraṇa or other evil qualities, Bbh 145.10 ; 173.1 ; 243.21 ; in Śikṣ 111.9 ( vs ; repeated several times below) read yaḥ styāna-middhe (for text yasmāna mi°) 'bhiratiṃ prayāti (these vss introduced in 111.5 by nidrārāmam adhikṛtyāha); in Śikṣ 129.12 read styānamiddha for text mlāna°; also in Gv 447.17 (text °viddha); Sādh 365.12 (text °siddha); Mmk 23.27 ; SP 335.6 ( vs ; Kashgar rec. stīna- mi°); LV 139.9 ; 262.16 = Mv ii.240.5 ; RP 39.8 ; 45.19 ; 56.17 ; 57.1 ; styānamiddhe (so read with mss. ) bahulāś ca bhavanti Mv i.79.16 .