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majjanमज्जन्majján m. (lit. ‘sunk or seated within’) the marrow of bones (also applied to the pith of plants), [RV.] &c. &c. (according to [ŚBr.] &c. one of the 5 elements or essential ingredients of the body ; in the later medical system that element which is produced from the bones and itself produces semen, [Suśr.]); scurf, [Kull.] on [Mn. v, 135.]
[cf. Zd. mazga; Slav. mozgǔ; Germ. marg, marag, Mark; Angl.Sax. mearg; Eng. marrow.]
majjanaमज्जनm. N. of a demon causing sickness or fever, [Hariv.]
of one of Śiva's attendants, [L.]
n. sinking (esp. under water), diving, immersion, bathing, ablution, [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.
(with niraye), sinking into hell, [MBh.]
drowning, overwhelming, [ib.]
= majjan, marrow, [L.]
majjanvatमज्जन्वत्majjan—vát mfn. marrowy (opp. to a-majjaka), [TS.]
majjanagataमज्जनगतmajjana—gata mfn. plunged in a bath, [MBh.]
majjanamaṇḍapaमज्जनमण्डपmajjana—maṇḍapa m. a bathing-house, bath, [Siṃhās.]
majjanonmajjanaमज्जनोन्मज्जनm. du. ‘Majjana and Unmajjana’, N. of two demons, [Hariv.]