ORIENTAL SERIES.

LOMA-PADAMADHA VA. 181
LOMA-PADA (or Roma-pada). A king of Anga, chiefly
remarkable for his connection with T&shya-sr/nga (q.v.).
LOPAMUDRA. A girl whom the sage Agastya formed
from the most graceful parts of different animals and secretly
introduced into the palace of the king of Yidarbha, where the
child was "believed to be the daughter of the king. Agastya
had made this girl with the object of having a wife after his
own heart, and when she was marriageable he demanded her
hand. The king was loath to consent, but was obliged to yield,
and she became the wife of Agastya. Her name is explained
as signifying that the animals suffered loss (lopa) by her engross-
ing their distinctive beauties (mudrd), as the eyes of the deer,
&c. She is also called Kaushitaki and Yara-prada. A hymn in
the j&'g-veda is attributed to her.
MADA.
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Intoxication/ Described in the Maha-bharata as
"
a fearful open-mouthed monster, created by the sage Chyavana,
having teeth and grinders of portentous length, and jaws one
of which enclosed the earth and the other the sky," who got
Indra and the other gods into his jaws "like fishes in the
mouth of a sea monster."
MADAYANTL Wife of King Saudasa or Kalmasha-pada.
She was allowed to consort with the sage Yasishftia. According
to some this was a meritorious act on the king's part and a favour
to Yasishtfha ; according to others it was for the sake of obtaining
progeny. See Kalmasha-pada.
MADHAYA A name of Knslwa or Yishwu.
MADHAYA, MADHAYACHARYA A celebrated scholar
and religious teacher. He was a native of Tuluva, and became
prime minister of Yira Bukka Raya, king of the great Hindu
state of Yijaya-nagara, who lived in the fourteenth century.
was brother of Saya^a, the author o'f the great commentary on
the Yeda, in which work Madhava himself is believed to have
shared. Wilson observes, " Both the brothers are celebrated as
scholars, and many important works are attributed to them;
not only scholia on the Sanhitas and Bralimawas of the Yedas,
but original works on grammar and law ; the fact no doubt
being, that they availed themselves of those means which
their situation and influence secured them, and employed the
most learned Brahmans they could attract to Yijaya-nagara
upqn the works which bear their names, and to which they
contributed their Qwn labour and learning; their works were
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