muddhā

infatuated, bewildered, foolish Ja.v.436.

• -dhātuka bewildered in one’s nature, foolish(ly Ja.iv.391 (variant reading luddha˚); Dhp-a.iii.120 (variant reading danta˚ mūḷa˚).

pp. of muh, for the usual mūḷha, corresp. to Sk. mugdha. Not = mṛddha (of mṛdh to neglect which in P. is maddhita: see pari˚; nor = mṛdhra disdained

the head; top, summit. m. sg. muddhā Snp.983, Snp.1026, & muddhaṃ Snp.989; acc muddhaṃ DN.i.95; Snp.987 sq., Snp.1004, Snp.1025; Dhp.72 (= paññāy’ etaṃ nāmaṃ Dhp-a.ii.73); & muddhānaṃ MN.i.243 MN.iii.259 = SN.iv.56; instr. muddhanā Mhvs.19, Mhvs.30; loc muddhani Snp.689, Snp.987; MN.i.168; Vism.262; Mhvs.36 Mhvs.66, in meaning “on the top of (a mountain)”: Vin.i.5 (here spelt pabbata-muddhini) = SN.i.137; Ja.iv.265 (Yugandhara˚); Pv.ii.9#61 (Naga˚ = Sineru˚ Pv-a.138) Vism.304 (vammika˚ on top of an ant-hill)
■ Freq in phrase muddhā (me, or no, or te) sattadhā phaleyya as an oath or exclamⁿ of desecration or warning “(your) head shall split into 7 pieces,” intrs. spelt both phal˚ & phāl˚ at Ja.v.92 (te s. phal˚); Mil.157; Dhp-a.i.17 (me… phāl˚), Dhp-a.i.41 (te phalatu s.), Dhp-a.i.42 (ācariyassa m s. phalissati); Dhp-a.iv.125 (no… phāleyya); Vv-a.68 (me s. phal˚)
■ In compound muddha˚.

• -(n)aṭṭhi (muddhan-aṭṭhi) bone of the head Kp-a.51
• -ādhipāta head- splitting, battering of the head Snp.988 sq., Snp.1004, Snp.1025;
• -ādhipātin head-splitting (adj.) Snp.1026.
• -āra head (top) spoke Kp-a.172.
• -āvasitta “head-anointed” a properly anointed or crowned king DN.iii.60 sq., DN.iii.69; Pp.56; Mil.234.
• -pāta = ˚âdhipāta.

Vedic mūrdhan, the P. word shows a mixture of a-and n-stem