Prakrit Proper Names Part 1

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

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Ambā
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3. Ambā A deity presiding over a lore (vidyā).
1. Aval. p. 411.
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class of vānaprastha ascetics living on
Ambubhakkhi (Ambubhaksin) water.1
1. Bha. 417, Nir. 3. 3, Aup. 38.
Ambuvāsi (Ambuvāsin) Same as Jalavāsi.
1. Aup. 38, Bha. 417.
Akampiya (Akampita) Eighth Gaņahara (principal disciple) of Titthayara Mahāvīra. He wns born in Mahilāl as the son of father Deva(1) and mother
Jayamti(10) He was a great scholar of his time. Hearing the fame of Mahāvira he met him at Majjhimāpāvā. Omniscient Mahāvira revealed to him that he had a doubt in his mind about the existence of hell and he removed the doubt. Being highly impressed by it he became his disciple along with his three hundred pupils. He lived 78 years ;3 48 years as a householder, 9 years as a monk and 21 years as an omniscient. He and Ayalabhāyā, the ninth Ganahara had a common gana.”
1. Avan.' 595, 645, Vis. 2013, 2506. 3. Sam. 78. 2. AvaN. 648-9, Vis, 2364, 2380, 2437, 4. Vis. 2512, 2514, 2516. SamA. p. 86.
AvaN. 627, Nan v. 21, Kalp (Thera- 5. KalpV. p. 248. vali). 3, Sam. 11, KalpV. p. 186.
Akanna (Akarna) An Amtaradiva.
1. Sth. 304, Praj. 36, Jiv. 108, NanM. p. 103.
Akammabhūmi (Akarmabhūmi) Region of inaction, where a man need not take any work like fighting, writing and agriculture, as he depends entirely on the kalpa-vrkņas (wish-fulfilling trees). These regions number thirty in all : five Hemavayas, five Harivāsas, five Devakurus, five Uttarakurus, five Rammagavāsas and five Herannavayas. One region from each group lies in Jambuddiva, two in Dhāyaisamda and two in Pukkharavaradīva.3 1. NanM. p. 102. 2. Bha. 675, NanH. p. 33.
3. Sth. 197.
Akāmamaraṇa Same as Akāmamaraņijja.
1. UttN. p. 9.
Akāmamaraạijja (Akāmamaraniya) Fifth chapter of Uttarajjhayaņa.
1. Sam. 36, UttN. p. 9.
Akkatthali (Arkasthali) Another name of Anandapura.
1. NisCu. III. p. 192.