adjective light (bright) red, crimson, usually enumerated in set of 5 principal colours with nīla, pīta, lohitaka, odāta; e.g. at Vin.i.25; SN.ii.101 (f. mañjeṭṭhā); Vv.22#1 (Hardy in T. reads mañjaṭṭha, as twice at Vv-a.111, with vv.ll. ˚jiṭṭha ˚jeṭṭha, cp. Corrections & Add^ns on p. 372); Mil.61.

cp. *Sk. mañjiṣṭhā Indian madder