Ambaka, Ambakā: 13 definitions

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Ambaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Hinduism

Ganitashastra (Mathematics and Algebra)

Source: archive.org: Hindu Mathematics

Aṃbaka (अंबक) represents the number 2 (two) in the “word-numeral system” (bhūtasaṃkhyā), which was used in Sanskrit texts dealing with astronomy, mathematics, metrics, as well as in the dates of inscriptions and manuscripts in ancient Indian literature.—A system of expressing numbers by means of words arranged as in the place-value notation was developed and perfected in India in the early centuries of the Christian era. In this system the numerals [e.g., 2—aṃbaka] are expressed by names of things, beings or concepts, which, naturally or in accordance with the teaching of the Śāstras, connote numbers.

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Ganitashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, gaṇitaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science of mathematics, algebra, number theory, arithmetic, etc. Closely allied with astronomy, both were commonly taught and studied in universities, even since the 1st millennium BCE. Ganita-shastra also includes ritualistic math-books such as the Shulba-sutras.

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Ambaka in India is the name of a plant defined with Spondias pinnata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Spondias pinnata Kurz (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Planta Medica (1976)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Flora Indica (1832)
· Species Plantarum. (1799)
· Genera Plantarum (1789)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

1) Ambaka, 2 (demin. of amba) a little mango, only in °maddarī a kiṇd of bird (etym. uncertain) A.I, 188. (Page 74)

2) Ambaka, 1 (adj.) (= ambakā?) “womanish” (?), inferior, silly, stupid, of narrow intellect. Occurs only with reference to a woman, in combn. with bālā A.III, 349 (v. l. amma°) = V, 139 (where spelt ambhaka with v. l. appaka° and gloss andhaka); V, 150 (spelt ambhaka perhaps in diff. meaning).

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Ambakā, (f.) (Sk. ambikā demin. of ambī mother, wife, see P. amma & cp. also Sk. ambālikā f.) mother, good wife, used as a general endearing term for a woman Vin.I, 232 = D.II, 97 (here in play of words with Ambapālī expld. by Bdhgh at Vin.I, 385 as ambakā ti itthiyikā). (Page 74)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ambaka (अम्बक).—

1) An eye (in tryambaka).

2) A father.

3) Copper.

Derivable forms: ambakam (अम्बकम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Ambakā (अम्बका).—(= Pali id.; compare Sanskrit ambā), a (poor, Critical Pali Dictionary) woman: MPS 11.25, of Āmrapālī.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ambaka (अम्बक).—n.

(-kaṃ) 1. The eye. 2. Copper. E. amba to go, and vun aff.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ambaka (अम्बक).—[neuter] eye ([especially] Śiva’s).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Ambaka (अम्बक) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—poet. Sbhv

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Ambaka (अम्बक):—n. Śiva’s eye, [Bālarāmāyaṇa] (cf. try-ambaka)

2) an eye, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) copper, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) m. Name of a poet, [Subhāṣitāvali]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ambaka (अम्बक):—(kaṃ) 1. n. The eye; copper.

[Sanskrit to German]

Ambaka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Aṃbaka (ಅಂಬಕ):—

1) [noun] the organ of sight; the eye.

2) [noun] a symbol for the number 2.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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