Muditā (f.) [abstr. fr. mudu, for the usual mudutā, which in P. is only used in ord. sense, whilst muditā is in pregnant sense. Its semantic relation to mudita (pp. of mud) has led to an etym. relation in the same sense in the opinion of P. Commentators and the feeling of the Buddhist teachers. That is why Childers also derivers it from mud, as does Bdhgh. -- BSk. after the Pali: muditā Divy 483] soft -- heartedness, kindliness, sympathy. Often in triad mettā ("active love" SnA 128), karuṇā ("preventive love," ibid.), muditā ("disinterested love": modanti vata bho sattā modanti sādhu sutthū ti ādinā mayena hita -- sukh' âvippayogakāmatā muditā SnA 128); e. g. at D i.251; S v.118; A i.196 etc. (see karuṇā). -- Cp. also Sn 73; D iii.50, 224, 248; Miln 332 (˚saññā;+mettā˚, karuṇā˚); Vism 318 (where defined as "modanti tāya, taŋ -- samangino, sayaŋ vā modati etc."); DhsA 192. See on term Dhs trsl. §251 (where equalled tosugxairosu/nh); Cpd. 24 (called sympathetic & appreciative), 97 (called "congratulatory & benevolent attitude"); Expos. 200 (interpretation here refers tomudutā DhsA 151 "plasticity").