Looking at the line मातरपितराभ्यां च पोष्यमाणः स मानवः quoted from the Pariśiṣṭaparvan, the first of this line looks metrically defective to me, and the metrically correct line would probably read मातरापितराभ्यां च.  Assuming this to be the case, the usage मातरापितराभ्यां is identical with what we find the the RV मातरापितरौ.  The RV also has पितरामातरौ.  Looking at the RV usages, it appears to me most likely that मातरपितरौ is a further development of the RV मातरापितरौ, and that it is no wonder that Patanjali says this is the usage of Udīcām "Northerners."  Most likely, the developments of the RV usage, itself from this region, survived in that region.  This is just a speculation.

Madhav Deshpande

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Nityanand Misra <nmisra@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Andrew

Thanks for your kind help with the Pariśiṣṭaparva citation. 

Could you please help with the link to the e-text edition of Śṛṅgāraprakāśa that you used? I will check in other editions.

Thanks, Nityananda

On 10 July 2016 at 13:20, Andrew Ollett <andrew.ollett@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Nityanand,

It seems that Jacobi has given the reference in the extract quoted by Vijaya Dharma Sūri in the attachment as 3.130, which is confirmed by checking the editions available on DLI (99999990244944, 99999990245113, 99999990293745, 99999990321936). The full verse is: मातरपितराभ्यां च पोष्यमाणः स मानवः । क्रमेण यौवनं प्रापाप्रमत्तः कणभिक्षया ॥

I could not find a similar compound in any other work (an e-text of the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa, possibly based on Raghavan's edition, has mātarapitarau in ch. 11, but when I checked Dwivedi's edition the same passage has mātāpitarābhyām. (Of course Dwivedi silently corrects many of the 'mistakes' in the manuscript...)

Andrew


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