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orlando
25 April 2006, 10:18 AM
Namaste all.
By http://www.krsnabook.com/ch6.html
There are seven kinds of mothers according to Vedic injunction: the real mother, the wife of a teacher or spiritual master, the wife of a king, the wife of a brahmana, the cow, the nurse and the mother earth.
I can assure all the ISKCON followers that I trust to these Prabhupada'words.
I am just curios to know where the scriptures talk about the seven mathers and what is the exact verse.
Regards,
Orlando.

sarabhanga
29 May 2006, 12:43 AM
Namaste Orlando,

The Sapta-Matrika are named in the Mahabharata as:

Kākī, Halimā, Rudrānī, Brihalī, Aryā, Palālā, and Mitrā.

काकी च हलिमा चैव रुद्राथ ब्रिहली तथा ।
आर्या पलाला वै मित्रा सप्तैताः शिशुमातरः ॥

kākī ca halimā caiva rudrātha brihalī tathā |
āryā palālā vai mitrā saptaitāh śiśumātarah ||3.217.9||