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Entry अम्बा
अम्बाambāA mother; also used as an affectionate or respectful mode of address; 'good woman', 'good mother'; किमम्बाभिः…
[अम्ब्-घञ्] (Vocativeअम्बेVedic; अम्ब in later Sanskṛit)
A mother; also used as an affectionate or respectful mode of address; 'good woman', 'good mother'; किमम्बाभिः प्रेषितः; अम्बानां कार्यं निर्वर्तय Ś.2; कृताञ्जलिस्तत्र यदम्ब सत्यात् R.14.16.
Name of a plant (अम्बष्ठा d.).
Name of Durgā, wife of Śiva.
Name of an Apsaras; of a sister of Pāṇḍu's mother, a daughter of Kāśīrāja. [She and her two sisters were carried off by Bhīṣma to be the wives of Vichitravīrya who had no issue. Ambā, however, had been previously betrothed to a king of Śālva and Bhīṣma sent her to him; but the latter rejected her because she had been in another man's house. So she came back to Bhīṣma and prayed him to accept her; but he could not break his vow of life-long celibacy, and being enraged she returned to the forest and practised austere penance to revenge herself on Bhīṣma. Śiva favoured her and promised her the desired vengeance in another birth. Afterwards she was born as Śikhaṇḍinī, daughter of Drupada, who came to be called Śikhaḍin and became the cause of Bhīṣma's death.]
A term in astrology to denote the fourth condition. Compare Dravid Amma; German Amme; old German Amma.