ORIENTAL SERIES.

1 82 MADHA VIMADHYANDINA.
therefore compiled tinder peculiar advantages, and are deserved!?
held in the highest estimation." Among the works of Mad
hava are the Sarva-darsana-sangraha and the Sankshepa $ankara-
vijaya. Madhava was a worshipper of Yishmi, and as a re-
ligious philosopher he held the doctrine of dwaita or dualism,
according to which the supreme soul of the universe and the
human soul are distinct. Thus he was opposed to the teaching
of /Sankaracharya, who was a follower of $iva, and upheld the
Yedanta doctrine of a-dwaita, "no duality," according to which
God and soul, spirit and matter, are all one.
MADHAYL A name of LakshmT.
MADHIL i. A demon slain by Knslma. (See Kai/abha)
2. Another, or the same demon, said to have been killed by
$atru-ghna.
MADHU-CHHAJSTDAS. A son of Yiswamitra, who had
fifty sons older and fifty younger than this one ; but they are
author of
spoken of as "a hundred sons." He is the reputed
some hymns of the J?ig-veda.
MADHU-KA$A. Described in the Atharva-veda as "the
brilliant grand-daughter of the Maruts, the mother of the Adityas,
the daughter of the Vasus, the life of creatures, and the centre
of immortality."
the sea, fire, and wind ;
She " sprang from the sky, the earth, the air,
"
and it is added, " all creatures, worship-
ping her who dwells in immortality, rejoice in their hearts,"
MADHUEANIKUDDHA. A drama in eight acts by $a-
yani Chandra $ekhara, It is quite a modern work.
"
The subject
is the secret loves of Usha, daughter of the Asura Bana
and Aniruddha, grandson of Knslma. The piece abounds too
much with description to be a good play ; the style has con-
siderable merit" Wilson.
MADHU-StTDAKA. <
Slayer of Madhu.' A name of Krishna
MADHYA-DESA. The middle country, described by Manu
as " the tract situated between the Himavat and the Yindhya
ranges to the east of Yinasana and to the west of Prayiiga
(Allahabad)." Another authority makes it the Doab.
MADHYANDIl^A. A Yedic school, a subdivision of the
Yajasaneyi school, and connected with the Datapath a Brahmana,
It had also its own system of astronomy, and obtained
its name fron* making noon (mnd1< ya~dina) the starting-point of
the planetary movement*