majján 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.]