# मुदिता (muditā)

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मुदिता (muditā) is a Sanskrit word meaning delighted, joyful, glad, a particular sort of servant, joy, gladness, complacency, sympathy in joy, a kind of sexual embrace, a particular Siddhi according to Samkhya schools. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 7 contexts, among them Adjective: Glad, Joyful, Delighted, Noun: Joy, Gladness, Sympathetic Joy (Buddhist Concept), Specific Meanings of Mudita (non-feminine forms).

- **SLP1:** `muditA`  **IAST:** muditā  **Devanagari:** मुदिता
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita
- **Declensions:** 24 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/mudita/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** मुदित (mudita)

## Meanings by context

### Adjective: Glad, Joyful, Delighted (2 definitions)
- delighted, joyful, glad  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 822,2] मुदित (mudita) mfn. delighted, joyful, glad, rejoicing in ( instr. or comp. ), MBh.; Kāv. &c. [ ID=165470 ]
- Glad, happy, delighted  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मुदित (mudita) ा (muditā) [Printed book page 577-21 ] मुदित (mudita) (I) a. (f. ता (tā) ) Glad, happy, delighted. [ ID=30424.1 ]

### Noun: Joy, Gladness, Sympathetic Joy (Buddhist Concept) (2 definitions)
- joy, gladness, complacency  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2B) [Printed book page 822,2] मुदिता (muditā) f. joy, gladness, complacency, Lalit. [ ID=165472 ]
- sympathy in joy  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > sympathy in joy, Divyāv. [ ID=165473 ]

### Specific Meanings of Mudita (non-feminine forms) (2 definitions)
- a particular sort of servant  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > मुदित (mudita) m. a partic. sort of servant, R. [ ID=165471 ]
- a kind of sexual embrace  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2B) [Printed book page 822,2] मुदित (mudita) n. a kind of sexual embrace, L. [ ID=165474 ]

### Lexicographical Note: Possible Misreading (1 definition)
- A wrong reading for nudita and sudita.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > w.r. for नुदित (nudita) and सूदित (sūdita). [ ID=165476 ]

### Philosophical Term: A Siddhi (Sāṃkhya) (1 definition)
- a particular Siddhi according to Samkhya schools  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a partic. Siddhi, Sāṃkhyas. Sch. [ ID=165475 ]

### Proper Noun: Name of a Person (Wife of Saha) (1 definition)
- wife of Saha  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > मुदिता (muditā) [Printed book page 491-1 ] Muditā, wife of Saha. § 493 (Āṅgirasa): III, 222, 14208 ( Āpasya Muditā —so B., C. has duhitā—bhāryā Sahasya paramā priyā ). [ ID=7388 ]

### Proper Noun: Name of a River (1 definition)
- a river of the Plakshadvipa  
  *The Purana Index*
  > मुदिता (muditā) [Printed book page 2-714 ] Muditā — a R. of the Plakṣadvīpa. Vā. 49. 17. [ ID=10866 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Index to the Names in the Mahabharata; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); The Purana Index; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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