m. a drink in which other ingredients are mixed by stirring, mixed beverage (usually parched barley-meal stirred round in milk;but also applied to a particular medicinal preparation) etc.
mf(ā-)n. (allied to2. mand-and manda-,but in some meanings rather fr.math-) slow (literally and figuratively;often in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound'"slow in") , lazy, tardy, indolent, dull, stupid, silly etc. ( mantharamam-ind.)
f.Name of a humpbacked female slave of bharata-'s mother kaikeyī- (according to to an incarnation of the gandharvī-dundubhī-; according to to a daughter of virocana-)
मन्थः [मन्थ्-करणे घञ्] 1 Churning, shaking about, stirring, agitating; मन्थादिव क्षुभ्यति गाङ्गमम्भः U.7.16; R.1.3. -2 Killing, destroying. -3 A mixed beverage; पुंसा नक्षत्रेण मन्थं संनीय जुहोति Bṛi. Up. 6.3.1. -4 A churning-stick (मन्था also). -5 The sun. -6 A ray of the sun. -7 Excretion of rheum from the eyes, mucus (from the eyes), cataract. -8 An instrument for kindling fire by attrition. -9 A spoon for stirring. -1 A kind of antelope. -11 A medical preparation of drink; चूर्णे चतुष्पले शीते क्षुणद्रव्यं पलं क्षिपेत् । मृत्पात्रे मन्थयेत् सम्यक् तस्माच्च द्विपलं पिबेत् Bhāva. P. -Comp. -अचलः, -अद्रिः, -गिरिः, -पर्वतः, -शैलः the Mandara mountain (used as a churning-stick); मन्थाद्रिभ्रमणभ्रमं हृदि हरिद्दन्तावलाः पेदिरे Bv.1.55. -उदकः, -उदधिः the sea of milk. -गुणः a churning-cord. -जम् butter. -दण्डः, -दण्डकः a churning-stick. -विष्कम्भः the churning post (Mar. घुसळखांब).
मन्थनः [मन्यते$नेन करणे ल्युट् भावे ल्युट् वा] A churning-stick. -नम् 1 Churning, agitating, stirring or shaking about. -2 Kindling fire by attrition. -नी A churningvessel. -Comp. -घटी a churning-vessel.
मन्थर a. [मन्थ्-अरच्] 1 Slow, dull, tardy, lazy, inactive; गर्भमन्थरा Ś.4; प्रत्यभिज्ञानमन्थरो$भवत् ibid; स्थाने खल्वयं प्रसवमन्थरो$भूत् M.5; दरमन्थरचरणविहारम् Gīt.11; Śi.6.4;7.18;5.62; R.19.21. -2 Stupid, foolish, silly; मन्थरकौलिकः. -3 Low, deep, hollow, having a low tone. -4 Large, broad, wide, big. -5 Bent, crooked, curved. -6 Indicating, showing (सूचक). -रः 1 A store, treasure. -2 The hair of the head. -3 Wrath, anger. -4 Fresh butter. -5 A churning-stick. -6 Hindrance, an obstacle. -7 A stronghold. -8 Fruit. -9 A spy, an informer. -1 The month Vaiśākha. -11 The mountain Mandara. -12 An antelope. -रा N. of a humpbacked nurse or slave of Kaikeyī who instigated her mistress, on the eve of Rāma's coronation as heir-apparent, to beg of her husband by the two boons formerly promised to her by him, the banishment of Rāma for fourteen years and the installation of Bharata on the throne; मन्थरां प्रविशस्वादौ कैकेयीं च ततः परम् A. Rām. -रम् Safflower. -Comp. -विवेक a. slow in judgment, void of discrimination; उन्मथ्य मन्थरविवेकमकाण्ड एव Māl.1.18.
उन्मन्थनम् 1 Shaking off, agitating. -2 Killing, slaughter; अन्योन्यसूतोन्मथनादभूताम् R.7.52; hurting; मारीचदर्शनं चैव सीतोन्मथनमेव च Rām.6.124.11. -3 Beating (with a stick). -4 Probing, stirring a dart lodged in the body. -5 The instrument used for this purpose. -6 Churning up; कौर्मे धृतो$द्रिरमृतोन्मथने स्वपृष्ठे Bhāg.11.4.18.
m. churning; killing; mixed beverage (gnly. milk with parched barley meal); stirring-spoon; churning-stick; in strument for kindling fire by attrition: (a) danda: -ka, m. churning-stick.
a. producing fire by at trition (--°ree;); m. churning-stick; n. kindling of fire by the attrition of sticks; shaking or stirring about; churning; churning out (--°ree;); m. (?) instrument forkindling fire by attri tion: -danda, m. churning-stick.
a. slow, tardy, indolent; dull, stupid, foolish; bent, curved, crooked, humpbacked; --°ree;, slow to or in: -m or °ree;--, ad. slowly; m. N. of a tortoise: -ka, m. N.; N. of a tortoise; N. of a foolish weaver; N. of a humpback; -tâ, f. slowness; -½abhidhâ na, a. named Manthara.
In the Rigveda and later denotes a drink in which solid ingredients are mixed with a fluid by stirring, usually parched barley-meal (Saktu) with milk. All sorts of mixed beverages of this type are mentioned in the śāñkhāyana Araṇyaka.
Is used in the Brhadāranyaka Upanisad to denote ‘ churning sticks.’ In the Vājasaneyi Samhitā the ‘ churner ’ (upamanthitr) is included in the list of victims at the human sacrifice (purusamedha), and the verb upa-manth is often used of churning or mixing fluids.
noun (masculine) a churning-stick (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a drink in which other ingredients are mixed by stirring (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of antelope (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular disease of the eye (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a spoon for stirring (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
agitating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
churning (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
excretion of rheum (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
killing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mixed beverage (usually parched barley-meal stirred round in milk) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking about (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
slaying (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stirring round (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the sun or a sun-ray (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) agitating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
churning (milk into butter) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
churning out (of Amṛta) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking about (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the act of kindling fire by rubbing pieces of wood together (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the act of shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a churning-stick (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a fortress (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a spy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a treasure or hair or anger (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an antelope (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an obstacle (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
fruit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hindrance (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a tortoise (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the month Vaiśākha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stronghold (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the mountain Mandara (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
whirling (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective bent (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
broad (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
bulky (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
crooked (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
curved (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
deep (as sound) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
dull (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hollow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
humpbacked (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
indolent (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
large (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lazy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
low (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
silly (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
slow (lit. and fig) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stupid (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tale-bearing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tardy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wide (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a disease of the outer ear (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
agitation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
killing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
slaughter (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) a means of beating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a stick (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
agitating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
beating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cane (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
staff (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the act of shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
throbbing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) churning (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
friction (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
rubbing together (esp. for kindling fire) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) chewing (of betel) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
chewing the cud (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
frequent repetition (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ruminating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of a particular country (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Premna Spinosa (the wood of which by attrition produces flame) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the chick-pea (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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