or manth (q.v.) cl. 1. 9. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 18]; [iii, 5] and [xxxi, 40]) máthati, mánthati, mathnā́ti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. máthate, mánthate and mathnīte; Impv. mathnadhvam, [MBh.]; pf. mamātha, [AV.]; 3. pl. mamathuḥ, [Vop.]; methuḥ, methire, [Br.]; mamantha, °nthuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. mathīt, [RV.]; amanthiṣṭām, [ib.]; amathiṣata, [Br.]; fut. mathiṣyati, °te; manthiṣyati, [Br.] &c.; mathitā, [MBh.]; inf. mathitum, [MBh.] &c.; °tos, [Br.]; mánthitavaí, [MaitrS.]; ind.p. mathitvā́, -máthya, [Br.] &c.; manthitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 33]; -manthya and -mātham, [MBh.] &c.), to stir or whirl round, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with agnim), to produce fire by rapidly whirling round or rotating a dry stick (araṇi) in another dry stick prepared to receive it, [ib.]; (with araṇim), to rotate the stick for producing fire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; (with ūrum, hastam &c.), to use friction upon any part of the body with the object of producing offspring from it, [Hariv.]; [BhP.]; to churn (milk into butter), produce by churning, [TS.] &c. &c. (also with two acc., e.g. sudhāṃ kṣīra-nidhim mathnāti, ‘he churns nectar out of the ocean of milk’, [Siddh.] on [Pāṇ. i, 4, 51]); to mix, mingle, [Suśr.]; to stir up, shake, agitate, trouble disturb, afflict, distress, hurt, destroy, [AV.] &c. &c.: Pass. mathyáte (ep. also °ti), to be stirred up or churned &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. manthayati ([Lāṭy.]), māthayati or mathayati ([MBh.]), to cause to be stirred up or churned &c.: Desid. mimathiṣati, mimanthiṣati Gr.: Intens. māmathyate, māmantti &c., [ib.] [cf. Gk. μίνθη; Lat. mentha, menta; Lit. mentùrė; Germ. minza, Minze; Angl.Sax. minte; Eng. mint.]
mfn. (ifc.) destroying, a destroyer (cf. madhumath)
mathín m. (strong stem, mánthan, older mánthā; middle mathín or mathí [q.v.]; sg. nom. mánthās acc. mánthām [for manthānam See manthāna under √ manth] ; instr. mathā́ du. mathíbhyām pl. mathíbhyas &c. [cf. pathin and [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 83] &c.]; for mathīnā́m See mathi above) a churning-stick, any stick or staff for stirring or churning, [RV.] &c. &c.
f. N. of various towns (esp. of an ancient town now called Muttra and held in great honour as the birthplace of Kṛṣṇa; situated in the province of Agra on the right bank of the Yamunā or Jumna; described in [VP. xii, 1] as having been founded by Śatru-ghna; accord. to [Kull.] on [Mn. ii, 19] it forms part of a district called Brahmarṣi, belonging to Śūra-sena), [AV.Pariś.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.] &c.