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Ambā
The Ambadas are probably the Ambaşthas who were settled on the lower Chenab.? On account of their migration they are later identified with the people associated with those dwelling on the Mekala hill and Lessen puts them in the southern portion of the Western Ghats.3 2. See GESM. p. 101.
3. See TAI. p. 97.
2. Ambada Same as Ammada.
1. Aup. 38, Sth. 692, Sam. 159, Risi. 25.
various fruit
1. Ambaratilaka (Ambaratilaka) A mountain abounding in trees. It is situated in Dhāyaisamda.1
1. AvaCu. I. p. 173, AvaM. p. 222.
2. Ambaratilaka A garden on the Ambaratilaka(1) mountain. Preceptor Jugamdhara(1) visited it.1
1. Avaču. I. p. 174.
Ambarisa (Ambarışa) One of the fifteen Paramāhammiya gods.1
1. Bha. 166, SutCu. p. 154, SutN. 69.
1. Ambarisi (Ambarşi) A Brahmin of Ujjepi. Mālukā was his wife. They had a son named Nimbaya who was very naughty. After the death of Mālukā, Ambarisi and Nimbaya renounced the world and took to asceticism. Nimbaya could not adjust with other monks and had to change his shelter five hundred times. Ultimately he learned the art of modesty,
1. AvaCu. II. p. 196, AvaH. p. 708, AvaN. 1295.
2. Ambarisi Same as Ambarisa.1
1. SutN. 69.
situated to the north-east of
1. Ambasālavaņa (Amraśālavana) A grove Amalakappā. There was a shrine in it.
1. Jna. 148, Visk. p. 687, Raj. 2, RajM. p. 7.
A
grove with a shrine
situated on the precincts of
2. Ambasālavaņa Vāņārasi.
1. Nir. 3. 3.
A goddess.1
1. Ambā (Ambā)
1. Ava. p. 19.
2. Ambā A Vāṇamamtara goddess.
1. AvaH. p. 691, Tir. 686.
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