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मध्यमशी (madhyamazI)

 
Capeller Eng
English
मध्यमशी॑
m.
 intercessor (lying between).
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मध्यम—शी
m.
 ‘lying or being in the middle’, (prob.) an intercessor,
RV.
 x, 97, 12.
Vedic Reference
English
Madhyama-śī is found in one passage of the Rigveda, ^1 where
Roth^2 assigns to the word the meaning of intercessor, which
Zimmer^3 accepts, in the sense of ‘mediator’ or ‘arbiter, ’ as a
legal term, but which Roth may, as Lanman^4 suggests, have
intended to express ‘adversary’ or ‘preventer’ of the disease
referred to in the hymn. Whitney^5 thinks that it means ‘mid-
most man’ or ‘chief’ as the one round whom his followers
encamp.^6 Geldner, ^7 however, thinks that a third king, who is
‘neutral’ between two enemies, is intended.
1) x. 97, 12 = Av. iv. 9, 4 = Vājasaneyi
Saṃhitā, xii. 86.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
3) Altindisches Leben, 180. Cf. Dharma.
4) In Whitney's Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 159. But see Roth, Sie-
benzig Lieder, 174, which Lanman may
have overlooked, since he does not
refer to it.
5) Loc. cit.
6) Madhyamaśivan, in the Jaiminīya
Brāhmaṇa, ii. 408, is obscure.
7) Rigveda, Glossar, 131
Kommentar,
196 (where he seems to decide in favour
of derivation from śī, not śṛ).
Capeller
German
मध्यमशी॑
m.
 Richter (eig. Zwischentreter).
Grassman
German
madhyama-śī́, a., m., wol: der in der Mitte [Page990] sich lagernde als Bezeichnung etwa des Heerführers.
-ī́s [N. s.] tátas (aus den Gliedern) yákṣmam ví bādhadhve ugrás 〰 iva {923, 12}.