The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.50

v2.c17.s1.50

⁴⁸ The compound word *harimedhase*, here translated "an offering to Hari", has given much trouble; and the sense at last adopted does not appear very satisfactory. The word *medhas* is not found in Dictionaries: it is substituted by a grammatical rule, for *medhā* "understanding"; but only when compounded with a negative, or with *du*, *ra*, *su*, *manda*, or *alpa*. The meaning here given thus arrived at, the word *medha* is given in Wilson as meaning "an offering", and is derived from the root *medh* by adding the affix *ata*: it has therefore been supposed that this word *medhas* may be formed by affixing *asun* to the same root, with the same meaning.