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