aṃbu n. [
aṃb-śabde uṇ]
1 Water;
gāṃgamaṃbu sitamaṃbu yāmunaṃ K. P. 10.
2 The watery element of the blood (
cf. imber).
3 N. of a metre.
4 A term in astrology (
lagnāvadhikaṃ caturthasthānaṃ).
Comp. — kaṇaḥ a drop of water.
— kaṃṭakaḥ (short-nosed), alligator.
— kirātaḥ alligator.
— kīśaḥ, kūrmaḥ a tortoise (
śiśumāra); particularly Gangetic.
— keśaraḥ lemon-tree (
chālaṃgavṛkṣa).
— kriyā libation of water; presentation of water to the Manes of the deceased.
— ga, cara, cārin a. moving or living in water, aquatic (as fish &c.)
— ghanaḥ hail.
— catvaraṃ a lake.
— cāmaraṃ an aquatic plant (
śaivāla).
— ja a. produced in water, aquatic (
opp. sthalaja);
sugaṃdhīni ca mālyāni sthalajānyaṃbujāni ca Rām. (
— jaḥ)
1 the moon.
2 camphor.
3 the Sārasa bird.
4 the conch
5
N. of a tree (
hijjala). (
— jaṃ)
1 a lotus;
iṃdīvareṇa nayanaṃ mukhamaṃbujena Ś. Til. 3.
2 the thunderbolt of Indra.
°bhūḥ, °āsanaḥ ‘the lotus-born god,’ Brahmā;
°āsanā the goddess Lakṣmī.
— janman n. a lotus. (
— m.)
1 the moon.
2 the conch.
3 Sārasa.
— taskaraḥ ‘water-thief’, the sun (whose heat drinks up water).
— tālaḥ =
°cāmara.
— da a. giving or yielding water. (
— daḥ)
1 a cloud;
navāṃbudānīkamuhūrtalāṃchane R. 3. 53.
— dhara [
dharatīti dharaḥ, aṃbūnāṃ dharaḥ;
dhṛac]
1 a cloud;
vaśinaścāṃbudharāśca yonayaḥ Ku. 4. 43;
śaratpramṛṣṭāṃbudharoparodhaḥ R. 6. 44.
2 the plant
mustaka.
3 talc.
— dhiḥ [
aṃbūni dhīyaṃte atra; dhā-ki]
1 any receptacle of waters; such as a jar;
aṃbudhirghaṭaḥ Sk. 2 the ocean;
kṣāra° (
pb)
Bh. 2. 6.
3 the number four (in
Math.).
°prasavā N. of a plant (
ghṛtakumārī).
— nidhiḥ ‘treasure of waters’, the ocean;
devāsurairamṛtamaṃbunidhirmamaṃthe Ki. 5. 30.
— pa a. drinking water. (
— paḥ)
1 the ocean.
2 Varuṇa, the regent of waters;
rakṣoṃbupānilaśaśīśapurāṇi cāṣṭau Sid. Śir. 3
N. of a plant (
cakramardaka).
— patrā N. of a plant (
uccaṭāvṛkṣa).
— paddhatiḥ f.,
— pātaḥ current, flow or stream of water, cascade;
gaṃgāṃbupātapratimā gṛhebhyaḥ Bk. 1. 8.
— prasādaḥ, prasādanaṃ [
aṃbūni prasādayati] the clearing nut tree (
kataka) Strychnos Potatorum (the nuts of this tree are used for purifying water; when rubbed on the inner surface of the vessel, they precipitate the impurities which the water contains;
phalaṃ katakavṛkṣasya yadyapyaṃbuprasādakaṃ . na nāmagrahaṇādeva tasya vāri prasīdati).
— bhavaṃ a lotus.
— bhṛt m. 1 water-bearer, a cloud.
2 the ocean.
3 =
°patrā q. v. 4
N. of a plant
mustaka.
5 talc.
— mātraja a. produced only in water. (
— jaḥ) a conch-shell.
— muc m. a cloud;
dhvanitasūcitamaṃbumucāṃ cayaṃ Ki. 5. 12.
— rājaḥ 1 the ocean.
2 Varuṇa.
— rāśiḥ receptacle or store of water, the ocean;
tvayi jvalatyaurva ivāṃburāśau Ś. 3. 3;
caṃdrodayāraṃbha ivāṃburāśiḥ Ku. 3. 67,
R. 6. 57; 9. 82.
— ruh n. 1 a lotus.
2 Sārasa.
— ruhaḥ, haṃ, a lotus;
vipulināṃburuhā na saridvadhūḥ Ki. 5. 10. (
— hā)
N. of the land-lotus plant (
sthalapadminī).
— rohiṇī a lotus.
— vācī [
aṃbu tadvaṣarṇaṃ vācayati sūcayati] an epithet applied to the earth during four days from the 10th to the 13th in the dark half of the month of Āṣāḍha when it is supposed to be unclean (
rajasvalā iva) and agriculture is prohibited;
°pradaḥ the 10th day;
°tyāgaḥ 13th day.
— vāsinī, vāsī N. of a plant (
pāṭalā), the trumpet flower.
— vāhaḥ [
aṃbu vahatīti]
1 a cloud;
taḍitvaṃtamivāṃbuvāhaṃ Ki. 3. 1;
bharturmitraṃ priyamavidhave viddhi māmaṃbuvāhaṃ Me. 99.
2 a lake.
3 water-bearer.
4 the number 17.
5 a sort of grass.
— vāhin a. carrying or conveying water. (
m.)
1 a cloud.
2 =
mustaka. (
— nī)
1 a wooden vessel, a sort of bucket.
2 a woman fetching water.
3
N. of a stream.
— vihāraḥ sporting in water.
— visravā =
ghṛtakumārī.
— vetasaḥ a kind of cane or reed growing in water.
— śirīṣikā N. of a plant.
— saraṇaṃ flow or (
pb) current of water.
— sarpiṇī a leech (
aṃbuni sarpati)
— secanī a wooden baling vessel.