The lexical variants presented in the note below are arranged according to their frequency of occurrence in the survey data-from most frequent to least frequent. The word sasu is observed for both the concepts ‘ego’s husband’s mother’ and ‘ego’s wife’s mother’ in all districts of Maharashtra. The following variation was noted for the two concepts in different dialects of Marathi:

References:

Karve, Iravati. 1953. Kinship Organisation in India. Pune: Deccan College Monograph series 11.