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आम्बष्ठ्य (AmbaSThya)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आम्बष्ठ्य
m.
a king of the Ambaṣṭhas,
AitBr.
viii, 21, 6
Vedic Reference
English
Āmbaṣṭhya is mentioned in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa (viii. 21)
as a king, whose priest for the Rājasūya, or royal inauguration,
was Nārada. Presumably the name is local, meaning ‘King of
the Ambaṣṭhas, as interpreted in the St. Petersburg Dictionary.
Later the term Ambaṣṭha denotes ‘a man of mingled Brāhmaṇa
and Vaiśya parentage by father and mother’ respectively.