(ā), f., see below
medhā́ f. mental vigour or power, intelligence, prudence, wisdom (pl. products of intelligence, thoughts, opinions), [RV.] &c. &c.
Intelligence personified (esp. as the wife of Dharma and daughter of Dakṣa), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
a form of Dākṣāyaṇī in Kaśmīra, [Cat.]
a form of Sarasvatī, [W.]
a symbolical N. of the letter dh, [Up.]
= dhana, [Naigh. ii, 10.]