Mathana is used metaphorically in the sense of thinking thoroughly with arguments for and against, logically considering all pros and cons, with thesis , antithesis , poorvapaksha, khaNDana, siddhaanta. 

At least iin the form of its borrowing into Telugu, its a popular ddaily use term.  In Telugu 'mathana paDu'  means. to worry. intensely.

Iin contemporary Telugu, as a neologism, the English term. 'brain storming session 'is translated as 'medho mathana sadassu'  of course, with the 'o' being a modern ''freedom' to violate the grammar (without that freedom exercised, the term would have been medhaamathana sadassu). 

On Feb 23, 2018 1:25 AM, "Tieken, H.J.H. via INDOLOGY" <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Might there not be a relation between the idea of churning and that of pulverizing in the name of the so-called cūrṇi (Pkt cuṇṇi) commentaries to the Jaina canonical texts?.

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Onderwerp: [INDOLOGY] Mathitaartha

I thought I might have asked the following question once before on this list, but can't find it in the archives, so perhaps I only intended to but never did:

In a couple of texts now, I have come across the expression mathitārtha, literally 'churned meaning', in phrases such as iti mathitārthaḥ or mathitārtho gurusampradāyāj jñeyaḥ. I suppose it means something along the lines of innermost or final meaning, but I wonder if there is a more exact definition or explanation somewhere. Tubb and Boose's Scholastic Sanskrit doesn't seem to have it. Any hints appreciated!

Martin Gansten


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