मना

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

मना f. devotion , attachment , zeal , eagerness RV.

मना f. envy , jealousy ib.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Manā is found in one passage of the Rigveda in an enumeration of gifts, where it is described as ‘golden’ (sacā manā hiraṇyayā). It therefore seems to designate some ornament, or possibly a weight, and has accordingly been compared with the Greek (Herodotus has ), the Latin mina. All three words have been considered Semitic in origin, as borrowed from the Phœnicians in the case of Greece, from Carthage by way of Etruria or Sicily in the case of Rome, and from Babylon in the case of India. The identification as regards Manā is very conjectural, depending merely on the probabilities of Babylonian borrowing seen--e.g., in the legend of the flood, and in the system of the Nakṣatras. On the other hand, Mahā may very well be identical with the word manā which occurs several times in the Rigveda in the sense of ‘desire’ (from the root man, ‘think’), and which may have in this one passage the concrete sense of ‘desirable object.’ It is to be noted that in Bo7htlingk's Dictionary a single word Manā appears, to which the only senses assigned are ‘wish,’ ‘desire,’ ‘jealousy.’