Majjhima: 11 definitions
Introduction:
Majjhima means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Middle; appropriate; just right.An Arahant. He went, after the Third Council, as preacher to the Himalaya country (Mhv.xii.6), accompanied by four others:
Kassapagotta, Durabhissara, Sahadeva, and Mulakadeva.Dpv.viii.10; MT. (317) has Dundu bhissara for Durabhissara; Mbv. (115) agrees with MT., but has Sahassadeva; Sp. (i.68) gives their names as Kassapagotta, Alokadeva, Dundubhissara, and Sahadeva.
Majjhima preached the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta and eighty crores of persons became sotapannas. The five Elders, separately, converted five kingdoms, and each of them ordained one hundred thousand persons. Mhv.xii.41ff.
(Middle, central, medium).
See Majjhima Cittas
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Majjhima (मज्झिम, “middle-aged”) is a Prakrit name based on age, mentioned as an example in the Aṅgavijjā chapter 26. This chapter includes general rules to follow when deriving proper names. The Aṅgavijjā (mentioning majjhima) is an ancient treatise from the 3rd century CE dealing with physiognomic readings, bodily gestures and predictions and was written by a Jain ascetic in 9000 Prakrit stanzas.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
majjhima : (adj.) middle; medium; moderate; central.
Majjhima, (adj.) (Vedic madhyama, with sound change °ama›°ima after Geiger, P. Gr. 191, or after analogy with pacchima, with which often contrasted) 1. middle, medium, mediocre, secondary, moderate.—Applied almost exclusively in contrast pairs with terms of more or less, in triplets like “small-medium-big, ” or “first-middle-last” (cp. majjha 3b); viz. (a) of degree: hīna-m-paṇīta D. III, 215 (tisso dhātuyo); Dhs. 1205‹-› 1027 (dhammā); Vism. 11 (sīlaṃ); h. m. ukkaṭṭha Vism. 308; omaka m. ukkaṭṭha Vin. IV, 243; khuddaka m. mahā Vism. 100; lāmaka m. paṇīta (i.e. lokuttara) DhsA. 45 (dhammā); paritta-m-uḷāra Sdhp. 260. ‹-› (b) of time: paṭhame yāme majjhima° pacchima° J. I, 75; id. with vaye PvA. 5.—2. (nt.) majjhimaṃ the waist, in cpd. su-majjhimā (f.) a woman with beautiful waist ) V, 4. (Page 515)
1) majjhima (မဇ္ဈိမ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[majjha+ima．,ṭī．271．]
[မဇ္ဈ+ဣမ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၇၁။]
2) majjhimā (မဇ္ဈိမာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[majjha+ima+ā]
[မဇ္ဈ+ဣမ+အာ]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) majjhima—
(Burmese text): (၁) ခါး။ (၂) မဇ္ဈိမအသံ၊ ကြိုးကြာသံ။ (၃) မဇ္ဈိမအရပ်၊ ဖြူစင်သော အကျင့်ရှိသောသူတို့၏ နေရာအရပ်။ (၄) မဇ္ဈိမနိကာယ်။ (တိ) (၅) အလယ်-အလတ်-ဖြစ်သော-ရှိသော။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Back. (2) Musical sound, string sound. (3) A place or position of those with good etiquette and purity. (4) Pure nature. (5) Medium, moderate, existing. Refer to the original.
2) majjhimā—
(Burmese text): လက်လယ်၊ လက်ခလယ်။
(Auto-Translation): Middle, middle of the hand.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Majjhima (मज्झिम) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Madhyama.
2) Majjhimā (मज्झिमा) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Madhyamā.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Sanskrit dictionary
Majjhima (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 末示摩 [mò shì mó]: “Majjhima” [Sanskrit personal name].
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Ima, Majjha, A.
Starts with (+26): Mahaggata Citta, Majjhima Abbhokasika, Majjhima Arannika, Majjhima Ekasanika, Majjhima Janapada, Majjhima Kala, Majjhima Khalupacchabhattika, Majjhima Nesajjika, Majjhima Nikaya, Majjhima Pansukulika, Majjhima Patipada, Majjhima Pattapisoika, Majjhima Pisoapatika, Majjhima Rukkhamula, Majjhima Sapadanacarika, Majjhima Susanika, Majjhima Tecivarika, Majjhima Yathasantatika, Majjhimabhanaka, Majjhimabodhi.
Full-text (+354): Majjhimapatipatti, Majjhimamucchana, Majjhima Nikaya, Majjhimanataka, Majjhimasukari, Majjhimanulomika, Majjhimapannasa, Majjhimaratti, Majjhima Kala, Majjhimadesa, Majjhimayama, Majjhimabhanaka, Majjhimapurisa, Majjhima Janapada, Majjhimavaya, Mahaggata Citta, Majjhimagama, Majjhimasangiti, Majjhimatthakatha, Majjhimitthi.
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