मातृक मात्रा

मात्र

मात्र a. (त्रा, −त्री f.) [मा-त्रन्]
An affix added to nouns in the sense of ‘measuring as much as’, ‘as high or long, or broad as,’ ‘reaching as far as;’ as in ऊरुमात्री भित्तिः पंचदशयोजनमात्रमध्वानमतिचक्राम K.; (in this sense the word may as well be considered to be मात्रा at the end of comp. q. v. below).
−त्रं 1. A measure, whether of length, breadth, height, size, space, distance or number; usually at the end of comp. i. e. अंगुलिमात्रं a ‘finger's breadth’; किंचिन्मात्रं गत्वा ‘to some distance’; क्रोशमात्रे ‘at the distance of a Krośa’, रेखामात्रमपि ‘even the breadth of a line, as much as a line’; R. 1. 17; so क्षणमात्र, नि मिषमात्रं ‘the space of an instant;’ शतमात्र ‘a hundred in number’; so गजमात्र ‘as high or big as an elephant’; तालम त्र, यवमात्र &c.
2 The full measure of anything, the whole or entire class of things, totality; जीवमात्र or प्राणिमात्रं ‘the entire class of living beings’; मनुष्यमात्रो म- र्त्यः ‘every man is mortal’; वस्तुमात्रप- क्षकोऽनुप पंहारी (हेतुः) Tarka K.; मानुषमात्रदुष्करं कर्मानुष्ठितं Dk.
3 The simple measure of anything, the one thing and no more, often translateable by ‘mere,’ ‘only’, ‘even’; जातिमात्रेण H. 1. 58 ‘by mere caste’; टिट्टिभमात्रेण समुद्रो व्याकुलीकृतः 2. 149. ‘by a mere wag-tail’, वाचामात्रेण जा- प्यसे Ś. 2 ‘merely by words’; so अर्थमात्रं, संमानमात्रं Pt. 1. 83; used with past participles मात्र may be translated by ‘as soon as’, ‘no sooner than’, ‘just’; विद्धमात्रः R. 5. 51 ‘as soon as pierced’, ‘when just pierced’; भुक्तामात्रे ‘just after eating’; प्रविष्टमात्र एव तत्रमवति Ś. 3. &c.

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