A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, & literature / by John Dowson.

  • Dowson, John, active 1913.
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1913
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Credit: A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, & literature / by John Dowson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is a translation in French by Apudy with the text, and a translation in German by Eiickert AMBA ‘ Mother.’ i, A name of Durgi 2. The eldest daughter of a king of Ka5L She and her sisters Ambika and Ambalika were carried off by Bhishma to be the wives of Vichitra- virya Amba had been previously betrothed to a Raja of ^Salwa, and Bhishma sent her to him, but the Raja rejected her because she had been in another man’s housa She retired to the forest and engaged in devotion to obtain revenge of Bhishma /Siva favoured her, and promised her the desired vengeance in another birth. Then she ascended the pile and was born again as aSIIc- ha?^cZin, who slew Bhishma. AMBALIKA The younger widow of Vichitra-virya and mother of V&ndn by Vyasa See Maha-bharata AMBARlSHA. i. A king of Ayodhya, twenty-eighth in descent from Ikshwaku. {See SunaJise^hsiS.) 2. An appellation of <Siva 3. Name of one of the eighteen hells. AMBASHTHA A military people inhabiting a country of the same name in the middle of the Panjab; probably the * A/jilSdirrai of Ptolemy. 2. The medical tribe in Manu. AMBIKA I. A sister of Rudra, but in later times identified with Uma 2. Elder widow of Vichitra-virya and mother of Dhy’ita-rashfra by Vyasa See Mah^bharata AMBIKEYA A metronymic applicable to Ganesa, Skanda, and Dhnta-rash/ra AMKAYA Sacred tradition. The Vedas in the aggregate. AMA/TA ‘Immortal’ A god. The water of life. Tlie term was known to the Vedas, and seems to have been applied to various things offered in sacrifice, but more especially to the Soma juice. It is also called Kir-jara and Piyusha, In later times it was the water of life produced at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons, the legend of which is told with some variations in the RamayaTia, the ]\Iaha-bharata, and the Puranas. The gods, feeling their weakness, having been worsted by the demons, and being, according to one authority, under the ban of a holy sage, repaired to Vishnu, beseeching him for renewed vigour and the gift of immortahty. He directed them to chum the ocean for the Amrita and other precious things which had been lost The story as told in the Vishnu Pura?ia has been rendered into verse by Professor Williams thus :—