Prakrit Proper Names Part 1

Author(s): Mohanlal Mehta, K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Amkāvai
3. Amkāvai One of the four peaks of Aṁkāvai (2).
1. Jam. 102.
1. Amkusa (Ankuša) A celestial abode in Mahāsukka(1) where gods are born with a maximum life-span of sixteen sägaropama years.
1. Sam. 16.
2. Amkusa A Gaha (planet) mentioned in Thāņa only. It is over and above eighty-eight planets.? 1. Sth. 90.
2. SthA. p. 78, fn. 1.
heavenly abode in Mahāsukka(1),
Amkusapalamba (Ankušapralamba) A similar to Amkusa(1).1
1. Sam. 16.
1. Amga (Anga) One of the sixteen great janapadas (state) in the time of Titthayara Mahāvīra. Campā was its capital. The Āriya region extended upto Amga and Magaha in the east. King Camdacchāya of Amga renounced the world along with Titthayara Malli(1).* Amga is identified with the country about Bhagalpur including Monghyr." See also Campā. 1. Bha. 554, JnaA. p. 125, SthA. pp. 142, 3. SutSi. p. 123, Praj. 37, Brh. 1.51.
564, KalpDh, p. 152, KalpV. p. 236. 4. Sth. 564, SthA. P. 401. 2. Praj. 37, Jna. 69, SthA. pp. 401, 5. See GDA. p. 7.
479, UttK. p. 433.
2. Amga One of the hundred sons of Titthayara Usaha(1).1
1. KalpDh. p. 151, KalpV. p. 236.
3. Amga A group of canonical texts, eleven in number, and other than Ditthiyāya and Paiņnaga. According to one view Ditthivāya is the source of all the Amga texts3 and therefore, Ditthivāya or so to say, Puvvagaya is composed first and then all the eleven Amga texts by the Ganaharas.5 According to the other view Ditthivāya is included in the Amga texts and thus their number is twelve and they are composed by the Ganaharas in the following order :- 1. Āyāra, 2. Suyagada, 3. Thāņa, 4. Samavāya, 5. Viyahapannatti, 6. Ņāyādhammakahā, 7. Uvāsagadasā, 8. Astagadadasā, 9. Aņuttarovavāiyadasă, 10. Paṇhāvāgaraṇa, 11. Vivāgasuya and 12. Ditthivāya (not extant).7 These twelve texts have been compared with the twelve limbs
1. Utt. 28.23, Bha. 93, KalpV. p. 187. NanM. p. 240, NanH. p. 69, AvaCu.I. p. 2. Utt. 28.23.
8, JivM. p. 3, SamA. pp. 130-131. 3. Vis. 553-554, BrhBh. 145, 146.
7. Nan. 41, Sam. 1, 136 ff, Vis. 1688, AcaN. 4. See CLJ. P. 8.
8-9, pp. 5-6, NanCu p. 57,. Anu. 3, 5. NanCu. p. 57, NanM. p. 240, SamA. AcaCu. p. 3, Nan M. pp. 208-9, Kalp V. p. pp 130-131.
248, Cand. 27, Avan. (Dipika)p. 188. 6. Vis. 553, AcaN. 8-9, AcaCu. p. 3, !