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muditāsahagatena

muditāsahagata

masc instr sg of muditāsahagata (adj); nt instr sg of muditāsahagata (adj)

1. accompanied by joy; full of happiness for others

Built from

• mudita — stem · sympathetic joy
  Past participle of √mud 'rejoice'; in Buddhist psychology, mudita (appreciative or vicarious joy) is one of the four divine abodes (brahmavihāra), the quality of rejoicing in others' happiness.
• ā — prefix · up to, reaching
  Reverses or intensifies the motion sense; here in sahagata 'reaching together', contributing to the notion of accompaniment and completeness.
• saha — root · together, with
  Cognate with Sanskrit saha, English same; expresses simultaneity and companionship.
• gata — ending · gone, occurred
  Past participle of √gam 'go, come'; marks the state or condition of being accompanied or concomitant.
• ena — ending · instrumental singular
  Marks the instrumental case (by means of, with, in), showing that the joy-accompanied quality is the means or manner by which a mental state is constituted.

Analysis. muditā (feminine nominative singular of mudita, 'sympathetic joy') + sahagata ('accompanied by, occurring together with'), a dvandva-type or bahuvrīhi compound: 'joy-accompanied', denoting a mental state pervaded by mudita, empathetic gladness at others' good fortune.

Etymology. mudita is the past participle of √mud 'to be glad, rejoice' (Sanskrit mud-, related to mood, move, emotion-words of Indo-European); sahagata is sam- (together) + ā- (up to, reaching) + √gam (go, come), literally 'gone-together-with', hence 'accompanying, concomitant'. The compound describes a quality unified by joyfulness.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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