ámbikā f. (voc. ámbike), mother, good woman (as a term of respect), [VS.] & [TS.] (cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 118]), [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 107] Comm. (voc. °ke) & [Kāś.] (in Veda voc. optionally °ka and °ke)
a N. applied to the harvest (as the most productive season), [Kāṭh.]
a sister of Rudra, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]
N. of Pārvatī (the wife of Śiva), [Hariv.]; [Yājñ.] &c.
of the wife of Rudra Ugraretas, [BhP.]
of one of the mothers in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2630]
of a daughter of the king of Kāśi (wife of Vicitravīrya, and mother of Dhṛtarāṣṭra), [MBh.] &c. (cf. ambālikā)
one of the female domestic deities of the Jainas, [L.]
N. of a place in Bengal, [L.]
N. of two rivers, [Hcat.]
the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica.