The Sanskrit term Mātṛvadha can be transliterated into English as Matrvadha or Matrivadha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

General definition (in Hinduism)

Source: archive.org: Vedic index of Names and Subjects

Mātṛvadha (मातृवध, “matricide”) is mentioned as a very grave crime in the Kauṣītaki-upaniṣad (III.1), but as one that can be expiated by the knowledge of the truth.

In Buddhism

General definition (in Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Dharma-samgraha

Mātṛvadha (मातृवध, “matricide”) or refers to one of the “five (things) having immediate consequence” (pañcānantarya) as defined in the Dharma-saṃgraha (section 60). The Dharma-samgraha (Dharmasangraha) is an extensive glossary of Buddhist technical terms in Sanskrit (e.g., mātṛ-vadha). The work is attributed to Nagarjuna who lived around the 2nd century A.D.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

mātṛvadha (मातृवध).—m (S) mātṛhatyā f (S) Matricide.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Mātṛvadha (मातृवध).—the murder of a mother (with Buddhists one of the five unpardonable sins.)

Derivable forms: mātṛvadhaḥ (मातृवधः).

Mātṛvadha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mātṛ and vadha (वध).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Mātṛvadha (मातृवध):—[=mātṛ-vadha] [from mātṛ] m. the murder of a mother, [Rāmatāpanīya-upaniṣad] (with Buddhists one of the 5 unpardonable sins, [Dharmasaṃgraha 60]).

[Sanskrit to German]

Matrivadha in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Matri, Vadha.

Full-text: Pancanantarya, Anantarya, Vadha.

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