Krsna Kirtana Songs est. 2001 www.kksongs.org
Words Starting with M
Madana-gopāla – name of Lord Kṛṣṇa
Madana-mohana – name of Lord Kṛṣṇa
Mādhava – killer of Madhu; name of Lord Kṛṣṇa
Mādhavācarya – an ācārya in the
Gauḍīyā succession of disciples
Mādhavendra Purī – spiritual master of
Īśvara Purī
Madhvācārya – a thirteenth century
ācārya who preached the theistic philosophy of “pure dualism”; i.e.
distinct difference between the Lord and the individual living entities
madhya – 1) one of the seven original tālams in
South Indian music 2) medium tempo
madhya saptaka – middle octave
madhyama – the fourth note in the musical scale
Mādrī – the second wife of
Pāṇḍu who accepted self-immolation after
Pāṇḍu’s death; mother of Nakula and Sahadeva
Mahābhārata – the epic written by
Vyāsadeva describing the history of
mahājana – the chief authorities on the process
of pure devotional service to the Lord
Mahāprasthanika Parvana – the seventeenth book
discussing the retirement of the Pāṇḍavas and Draupadī
mahā-mantra – see Hare Kṛṣṇa
mahat-tattva – total material energy
mahātmā – “great soul”
maidān – “midfield”; the region between the
kinnar and syahi on a classical drum head
Mainaka – the mountain in the sea between
Mālyavān – the maternal grandfather of Rāvaṇa
mānava – human-life
mandarā saptaka – the lower octave
Maṇḍavī – wife of Bharata
Māndhātā – arrogant and powerful king
of the solar dynasty who was defeated by Lavaṇa
Mandodarī – the principal queen of Rāvaṇa;
mother of Meghnāda
Mantharā – maid of Kaikeyī who instigated
a plot to send Rāma to the forest
mantra – a syllable, word, verse, or incantation
with special spiritual potency or realization
Manu – the first man on Earth
Manu-Saḿhitā – the Vedic law book for
human society
Matysa-deśa – the kingdom near the Kuru nation
where the Pāṇḍavas stayed in anonymity for one year
Matsyadeva – the Lord’s form of a fish to save the
Vedas and protect Satyavrata and the elements of the Earth
Mārīca – the uncle of Rāvaṇa
who took form of golden deer to divert the attention of Lord Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa
Maruta – see Vāyu
Mārwā – one of the ten parent scales of
North Indian music
mātā – mother
mātṛ
– prefix: “mother-”
mātrā – unit of time in Indian rhythms
matta – 1) lit. ecstatic 2) a rare nine beat
rhythmic cycle
Mausala Parvana – the sixteenth book discussing the
destruction of the Yādava race
Maya – father of Mandodarī who was well known
for his role as an architect, he surrendered to Kṛṣṇa and
offered the Pāṇḍavas the palace of illusion
Māya – “that was it not”; the Lord’s illusory
energy
Māyavada – impersonal philosophy
Māyavadī – impersonalist
Meghnāda – eldest of Rāvaṇa
and Mandodarī; “thunder-voiced”
mela – (melakartā) the system of classifying
rāgams of South Indian into seventy-two scales
miśra – 1) mixed 2) the class of rhythmic
cycles based on having similarity to seven-beat cycles
Miśra Cāpu – a seven beat cyclic form used
in Carnatic music
Mithilā – the capital city of
mizrāb – (mezrāb) the finger pick used to
pluck the strings on a sitar
mleccha – ones who do not follow the Vedic culture
Mohinī – Lord Viṣṇu in the form of
a woman to steer the nectar of immortality to the demigods
Mohana – “the one that enchants”; name of Lord Kṛṣṇa
mokṣa
– salvation
mṛdańga – 1) (mṛt + ańga = “clay body”) see khol 2) general term
for two-headed barrel drums
mṛdańgam – the two-headed barrel low-pitched wooden drum in South
Indian music
mṛga
– deer
Mṛga
Nayana – “deer eyed one” (female = Mṛga Nayanī)
Mṛgeśa – the lord of deers; Kṛṣṇa
mṛtyu
– death
Mṛtyu-loka
– lit. “world of the mortals”; the material world
muḍha – donkey; (coll. “fool”)
mukra – (mukaḍā) 1) lit. “face”; verse in
a song 2) the cadence form connecting two rhythmic cycles together
mukti – liberation from the cycle of repeated birth and
death
murtī – lit. “personification”; Deity statues
Muṣṭika –
the minister and wrestler of Kaḿsa; killed by Balarāma