mada: 'infatuation'. "Infatuation is of 3 kinds: youth-infatuation, health-infatuation, life-infatuation" (D. 33). "Infatuated by youth-infatuation, by health-infatuation and by life-infatuation, the ignorant worldling pursues an evil course in bodily actions, speech and thought, and thereby, at the dissolution of the body, after death, passes to a lower world, to a woeful course of existence, to a state of suffering and hell" (A. III, 39).
Mada [Vedic mada, mad (see majjati), Idg. *mad, as in Av. mata intoxication, drink, mad, to get intoxicated orig. meaning "drip, be full of liquid or fat"; cp. Gr. mada/w dissolve, masto/s breast (mazo/s>Amazone), Lat. madeo to be wet, Ohg. mast fattening, Sk. meda grease, fat, Gr. me/zea; mesto/s full; Goth. mats eatables, Ags. mōs, Ohg. muos=gemüse, etc. Perhaps connected with *med in Lat. medeor to heal. For further relations see Walde, Lat. Wtb. s. v. madeo. -- The Dhtp (412) & Dhtm (642) explain mad by "ummāde" Dhtm 210 also by "muda, mada=santose"] 1. intoxication, sensual excess, in formuladavāya madāya maṇḍanāya (for purposes of sport, excess, personal charm etc.) M i.355=A ii.40= Nd1 496=Nd2 540=Pug 21=Dhs 1346, 1348. The commentator's explns bearing directly or indirectly on this passage distinguish several kinds of mada, viz. māna -- mada & purisa -- mada (at DhsA 403; Vism 293), or muṭṭhika -- mall' ādayo viya madatthaŋ bala -- mada -- nimittaŋ porisa -- mada -- nimittañ cā ti vuttaŋ (at Vism 31). Sn 218 (mada -- pamāda on which passage SnA 273 comments on mada with jāti -- mad' ādi -- bhedā madā). -- 2. (as mental state or habit) pride, conceit Miln 289 (māna, m., pamāda); Vbh 345 (where 27 such states are given, beginning with jāti˚, gotta˚, ārogya˚, yobbana˚, jīvita -- mada), 350 (where mada is paraphrased by majjanā majjitattaŋ māno . . . uṇṇati . . . dhajo sampaggāho ketukamyatā cittassa: same formula, as concluding exegesis of māna at Nd2 505 & Dhs 1116); sometimes more def. characterised with phrase mada -- matta elated with the pride or intoxication of . . . ( -- ˚). e. g. A i.147 (yobbana˚, ārogya˚, jīvita˚); PvA 86 (māna˚), 280 (bhoga˚). -- The traditional exegesis distinguishes only 3 mada's, viz. ārogya-mada the pride of health, yobbana˚ of youth, jīvita˚ of life: D iii.220; A i.146.
-- nimmadana "disintoxication from intoxication," freedom from pride or conceit A ii.34; Bu i.81; Vism 293.
mada: Pride, intoxication.
dregs
[translation-san] mada
[translation-eng] {Hopkins} haughtiness
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