मातुर्भ्रात्र (mAturbhrAtra)
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Englishमातुर्भ्रात्र - mAturbhrAtra - - mother's brother
Vedic Reference
EnglishMātur-bhrātra is a curiously formed compound, occurring
once in the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā^1 as a designation of the
‘maternal uncle, ’ who in the Sūtra period bears the name of
Mātula. Thus little is heard of the maternal uncle in the
Vedic period: it is not till the Epic^2 that traces appear of his
prominence as compared with the paternal uncle (pitṛvya).
This fact is significant for the ‘patriarchal’ character of the
early Indian family organization.^3
1) i. 6, 12.
2) Hopkins, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, 13, 141.
3) Delbrück, Die indogermanischen Ver-
wandtschaftsnamen, 484, 586-588. Cf.
also Rivers, Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, 1907, 629 et seq.
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