शाम्बु (zAmbu)
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Englishशाम्बु [śāmbu] म्बू [mbū] कः [kḥ], (म्बू) कः A bivalve-shell.
Vedic Reference
EnglishŚāmbu occurs in the plural with the Aṅgirases in a passage
of the Atharvaveda, ^1 no doubt as the name of a family of
ancient teachers. There is extant in manuscript a Gṛhya Sūtra
of the Śāmbavyas.^2
1) xix. 39, 5, where Whitney, Trans-
lation of the Atharvaveda, 960, re-
tracts the emendation Bhṛgubhyaḥ for
Śāmbubhyaḥ in the text.
2) Oldenberg, Indische Studien, 15, 4,
154.
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 678.
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