Meda [Vedic medas (nt.) fr. mid, see etym. under mada] fat S i.124; Sn 196; J iii.484 (ajakaraŋ medaŋ=ajakara -- medaŋ C.); Kh iii. (expld at Vism 262 as "thīnasineha" thick or coagulated fluid or gelatine); Vism 361; VbhA 66, 225, 245, 249.

-- kathālika a cooking pot or saucepan for frying fat A iv.377 (in simile with kāya); DhA ii.179 (similar); Vism 195 (in compar.). -- gaṇṭhi (as medo -- gaṇṭhi, Sk. influence!) an abscess of fat, fatty knot or tumour, mentioned as a disease at Miln 149. -- vaṇṇa fatcoloured; in cpd. ˚pāsāna a stone of the (golden) colour of fat found in the Himālaya mountains Sn 447 (=medapiṇḍa -- sadisa SnA 393); Mhvs 1, 39; 30, 57 sq., 96; 31, 121; see Geiger's note Mhvs (P.T.S. ed.) p. 355, who puts it beyond doubt, that meda˚ is the correct reading for the v. l. megha˚ at all places.