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mati

&c. See p. 783, col. 2.


matí f. (in [ŚBr.] also máti) devotion, prayer, worship, hymn, sacred utterance, [RV.]; [VS.]


thought, design, intention, resolution, determination, inclination, wish, desire (with loc. dat. or inf.), [RV.] &c. &c. (matyā ind. wittingly, knowingly, purposely; matiṃ √ kṛ or dhā or dhṛ or ā-√ dhā or samā-√ dhā or ā-√ sthā or sam-ā-√ sthā, with loc. dat. acc. with prati, or artham ifc., to set the heart on, make up one's mind, resolve, determine; matim with Caus. of ni-√ vṛt and abl. of a verbal noun, to give up the idea of; āhita-mati ifc. = having resolved upon; vinivṛtta-mati with abl. = having desisted from)


opinion, notion, idea, belief, conviction, view, creed, [ŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (matyā ind. at will; ifc., ‘under the idea of’ e.g. vyāghra-m°, ‘under the idea of its being a tiger’)


the mind, perception, understanding, intelligence, sense, judgement, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. (in [RV.] also ‘that which is sensible’, intelligent, mindful, applied to Aditi, Indra and Agni)


esteem, respect, regard, [Kir.]


memory, remembrance, [L.]


Opinion personified (and identified with Subalātmajā as one of the mothers of the five sons of Pāṇḍu, or regarded as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Soma, or as the wife of Viveka), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Prab.]


a kind of vegetable or pot-herb, [L.]


matí m. N. of a king, [Buddh.]


[cf. Lat. mens; Angl.Sax. ge-mynd; Eng. mind.]