hdbk.
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The names given to the drinkers of madhu=“madhuya,” madhu-pā and Madhvi; also madhu-varna, the men of Madhu's caste, are curiously homonymous with the word for Middle Madhyias and appear to designate them as the “Middle caste,” naturally associated with the North.171.Quoted by O'Neil from Satow and Hawes' Hdbk. of Japan, 2nd ed. p.
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