mAtfgrAma
mātṛgrāma , m. (= Pali mātugāma), womankind, the female sex ; in BHS ( acc. to Childers in Pali too) occasionally used mg. an (individual) woman , as in SP 418.9 sacet … mātṛgrāma imaṃ dharmaparyāyaṃ śrutvodgrahīṣyati … tasya sa eva paścimaḥ strībhāvo bhaviṣyati; 441.13 putrakāmo mātṛgrāmo … tasya putraḥ prajāyate; and in a cliché (see s.v. āveṇika ) ekatye paṇḍitajātīye mātṛgrāme Divy 2.3—4 ; 98.22 ; Av i.14.7 etc. , in every intelligent woman ; some of the following may also be interpreted thus, but most of them are abstract or collective: Mvy 3922 ; 6864 (°ma-bhāva); 8490 ; SP 202.5 ; 206.2 ; 277.1 ; 405.1 ; LV 25.14 ; 141.9 ; Mv iii.49.20 ; Divy 257.13 ff. ; 493.6 ; 531.6 ; Suv 110.5 ; Bbh 94.7 ; 167.7 ; Prāt 479.7, 11 ( prob. individual); Karmav 167.3 ; Bhīk 3a.1 .