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मातापिता

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Hindi

Noun

मातापिता • (mātāpitā) m

Alternative form of माता-पिता (mātā-pitā)

Old Gujarati

Etymology

Sanskritic dvandva compound of माता (mātā, “mother”) +‎ पिता (pitā, “father”).

Noun

मातापिता • (mātāpitā) ?

parents
- 1422, unknown, कालिकसूरिकथा :
  मातापिता मोकलावी पांच सइं क्षित्रीए अनइ सरस्वती बहिन सहित दीक्षा लीधी।
  mātāpitā mokalāvī pāṃca saïṃ kṣitrīe anaï sarasvatī bahina sahita dīkṣā līdhī.
  (His) parents sent him off; together with five hundred kshatriyas and (his) sister Sarasvati he took diksha.

Pali

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Noun

मातापिता (mātāpitā)

Devanagari script form of mātāpitā, which is nominative/vocative plural of मातापितर् (mātāpitar, “mother and father”)

Sanskrit

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Etymology

Univerbation of माता (mātā) +‎ पिता (pitā).

Phrase

मातापिता • (mātāpitā)

mother and father
- (Can we date this quote?), Padma Purana, 2.62.72:
  यत्र मातापिता तिष्ठेत्पुत्रस्यापि न संशयः ।
  अन्यानि तत्र तीर्थानि पुण्यानि विविधानि च ॥ ७२ ॥
  yatra mātāpitā tiṣṭhetputrasyāpi na saṃśayaḥ.
  anyāni tatra tīrthāni puṇyāni vividhāni ca. 72.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

→ Old Gujarati: मातापिता (mātāpitā) (learned)

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