The mother, again, is superior to ten fathers, or, perhaps, the whole world, there is no one so much worthy of reverence as the mother.
पितॄन् दश तु मातैका सर्वा वा पृथिवीमपि॥ गुरुत्वेनाभिभवति नास्ति मातृसमो गुरुः।